100 ordspråk av Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
 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. |
| Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little. |
| Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent. |
| For certain people, after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex |
| 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? |
| God, no. Unless you hold office, there's no point in being there. |
| Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. |
| He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence, |
| He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist. |
| He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist. |
| He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices |
| I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add. |
| I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims." |
| I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club. |
| 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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