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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

American writer and criticus

Lived from: 1925 - 2012

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 3 october 1925 Died: 31 july 2012

  • I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
  • Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
  • There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo - or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
  • Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
  • The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
  • Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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  • A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
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  • A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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  • All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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  • American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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  • Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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  • Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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  • As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
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  • Boys don't like girls around when they do boy things.
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  • Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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  • Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
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  • Envy is the central fact of American life.
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  • Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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  • Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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  • I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
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  • I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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  • I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
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  • I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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  • I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that's the last thing I wanted.
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  • I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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  • If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
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What are the most famous quotes from Gore Vidal?

The two most famous quotes from Gore Vidal are:

  • "A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships."
  • "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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When did Gore Vidal live?

Gore Vidal was born in 1925 and died in the year 2012.