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Thing Quotes by Gore Vidal
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
- You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?'
- If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.
- I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because…
- We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks.…
- There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of…
- The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl…
- I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but…
- We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well,…
- Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are…
- The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach