Gore Vidal Quotes - Page 9

• Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising of extremes in order to achieve that notorious half loaf which the passionate and the outraged never find sufficient.

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  Mean, Order, Matter

  Gore Vidal (1969). "Reflexiones sobre un barco que se hunde. (1. Ed.)", Boston : Little, Brown

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• Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

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  May, Victim, Executioners

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

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  Together, Inability, Disaster

  Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage

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• Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

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  Desire, States, Pursuit

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.

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  Mysterious, Talent, Kind

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• Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

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  Men, Race, Yellow

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.43, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

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  Punishment, Ideas, Religion

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Apr 07, 2015

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• I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.~

  Gore Vidal

  Stars, Writing, Want

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• Ese famoso bloqueo del escritor es un mito en lo que a mí respecta. Creo que los malos escritores deben tener una gran dificultad para escribir. No quieren hacerlo. Se han convertido en escritores por razones de ambición. Debe ser una gran tensión para ellos hacer marcas en una página cuando realmente no tienen mucho que decir, y no disfrutan haciéndolo. Yo no estoy tan seguro de lo que tengo que decir, pero desde luego disfruto haciendo frases.

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  Block, Writing, Ambition

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 06, 2012

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• Cada escritor nace con una compañía de repertorio en la cabeza.

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  Writing, Born, Company

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

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  Novelists, Stories, Southerner

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.

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  Book, Ignorance, World

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Mar 05, 2017

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• You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

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  Country, Love You, Mean

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• Monotheism is easily the greatest disaster to befall the human race.

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  Race, Disaster, Humans

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• a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

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  Telling The Truth, Journalist

  Gore Vidal (1998). “The American presidency”, Common Courage Pr

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• I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

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  People, Survival, Democracy

  "Views From a Window". Book by Robert J. Stanton, Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. 1980.

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• There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

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  Cuentas

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

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  Ignorance, Boredom, May

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• I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

  Gore Vidal

  Home, Invisible, Very Good

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

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  Class, Police, Criminals

  "The Swimmers" by Dick Cavett, www.nytimes.com. June 3, 2007.

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• The ideal to which John Adams subscribed-that we would be a nation of laws, not of men-was quickly subverted when the churches forced upon everyone, through supposedly neutral and just laws, their innumerable taboos on sex, alcohol, gambling. We are now indeed a nation of laws, mostly bad and certainly antihuman.

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  Sex, Men, Gambling

  Gore Vidal (2007). "Ensayos escogidos", Abacus Software

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• Es maravilloso ver por televisión cómo se cierran los anillos de Saturno y especular sobre lo que podemos encontrar en los confines de la galaxia. Pero en el proceso, hemos perdido el elemento humano; por no mencionar la gran esperanza de aquellos pintorescos días en los que el vuelo crearía un solo mundo. En lugar de un mundo, tenemos la guerra de las galaxias, y un futuro en el que los tontos y abollados juguetes humanos vagarán sin sentido por el cosmos mucho después de que nuestro pequeño planeta haya muerto.

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  Stars, War, Long

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 861), 1993.

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• La historia es un cotilleo ocioso sobre un suceso cuya verdad se pierde en el instante en que ha tenido lugar.

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  Taken, Gossip, Truth Is

  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

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• Algunos escritores se aficionan a la bebida, otros al público.

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  Writing, Alcohol, Bedtime

  Paris Review Interview (1981), later quoted in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series", 1981.

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• He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

  Gore Vidal

  Kansas, Prejudice, Insult

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