Aids Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aids Books Contemporary Contemporary life Fiction Life Masturbation Novel Play Temporary Life
Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“Reading good fiction is like making the jump from masturbation to sex.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I can't imagine otherwise - I guess Virginia Woolf could write wonderful novels where the women never have sex, and her novels work. But… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many people in the United States happen to believe that United States policy is wrong in Vietnam and the Vietcong are correct in wanting… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“It is curious how little interested we are in the sexual desires of those who do not attract us.” — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The oligarchs think that the people are both dangerous and stupid. Their point is moot. But we do know that the oligarchs are a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world. — Linda Evangelista Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will… — Neil Fox Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now,… — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
