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Want Quotes by Gore Vidal
- Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more.
- The word 'radical' derives from the Latin word for root. Therefore, if you want to get to the root of anything you must be radical.…
- 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.
- Private lives should be no business of the State. The State is bad enough as it is. It cannot educate or medicate or feed the…
- It is natural for men to want power. But to seek power actively takes a temperament baffling to both the simple and the wise. The…
- 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…
- I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're…
- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
- Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through…
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