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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal föddes den 31 marts 1948 - amerikansk författare.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.

Dagens offentliga personer kan inte längre skriva sina egna tal eller böcker, och det finns belägg för att de inte kan läsa dem heller.

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.

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.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

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.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Rome... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.

Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.

Det spelar ingen roll vem du röstar på - de två partierna är i själva verket ett parti som representerar fyra procent av folket.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people

For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? To the law of averages?

Bolagens grepp om den allmänna opinionen i USA är ett av västerlandets underverk. Inget I-land har någonsin lyckats med att så totalt eliminera all objektivitet från sina media - än mindre oliktänkade.

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.

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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