In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
GORE VIDALSex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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We’re not a democracy.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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