100 ordspråk av Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
 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. |
| I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery. |
| I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. |
| I was too polite to ask |
| I'm a born-again atheist |
| I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it. |
| It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of |
| 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. |
| It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. |
| It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true |
| It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people |
| It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
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