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Love Quotes by Gore Vidal
- I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then,…
- Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
- I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
- Envy is the central fact of American life.
- When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'
- I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
- I’m not a conspiracy theorist—I’m a conspiracy analyst,
- American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.
- Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.
- The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his…
- A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather…
- COâ‚‚ emissions anywhere threaten civilisation everywhere.
- The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'
- Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
- Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that…
- A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those…
- The American vice is explanation.
- It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.
- Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not,…
- It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume…
- If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
- There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
- You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest…
- As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
- Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
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- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide