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Nothing Quotes by Gore Vidal
- 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…
- History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
- I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of…
- 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…
- Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I like history. History…
- The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.
- 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…
- When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president…
- Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.
- Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to…
- The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where…
- 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…
- Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at galaxy's edge, all the…
- We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
- Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he…
- Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.
- Since nothing is free, to each his price.
More Nothing Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman