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Gore Vidal165 quotes“Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.”
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
Gore VidalGore Vidal If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
Gore VidalGore Vidal On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The media can’t get anything straight.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
Gore VidalGore Vidal By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
Gore VidalGore Vidal 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.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
Gore VidalGore Vidal American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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Once you start rewriting, you’re not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
Barry N. MalzbergBarry N. Malzberg A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
Erica JongErica Jong There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population.
Ludwig von MisesLudwig von Mises What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
John BergerJohn Berger The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.
Elena FerranteElena Ferrante Man’s material discoveries have outpaced his moral progress.
Clement AttleeClement Attlee By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life.
James Clerk MaxwellJames Clerk Maxwell
