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Great Quotes by Gore Vidal
- You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'
- I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a…
- That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want…
- American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
- Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the…
- 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…
- Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by…
- The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human…
- Television is a great leveler. You always end up sounding like the people who ask the questions.
- We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have…
- Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- 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.
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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