100 ordspråk av Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
 The ownership of this country has usually been pretty shrewd. They knew what they wanted. They don't want to pay taxes, certainly. They don't want people blowing them up in the night like 9/11. And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that. |
| The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. |
| There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. |
| There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. |
| 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. |
| There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. |
| There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. |
| These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also. |
| 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. |
| This is not at all bad, except as prose. |
| To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds. |
| 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. |
| Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight. |
| Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. |
| Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. |
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