100 ordspråk av Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
 Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. |
| Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. |
| Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. |
| Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink |
| Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel. |
| That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine. |
| That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. |
| That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. |
| 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. |
| The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death |
| 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 more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. |
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