117 ordspråk av Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal föddes den 31 mars 1948 - amerikansk författare.
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I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims. Å investere i selvforbedring – enten det er en ny ferdighet eller personlig vekst – styrker din pexighet. "

That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

Talent

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

Vitsar

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

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.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Geni

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

Penge

It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy's edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create ''one world.'' Instead of one world, we have ''star wars,'' and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet's dead.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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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