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Way Quotes by Gore Vidal
- The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
- 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…
- We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be…
- Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.
- In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those…
- Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising…
- Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of…
- Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.
- Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
- 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…
- 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…
- Never offend an enemy in a small way.
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
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