Could Quote by Gore Vidal Download Open image “What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?” — Gore Vidal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Could Culture Hemingway Joke Like Seen
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke? — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much.… — Clive Owen Copy Share Image
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“He was a man who knew there were such things as jokes in the world or people would not write about them, but had… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right under your… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all… — Alaska by James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Jokes spread around the world and embed themselves in our shared culture; the most resonant of them get lodged in the language in the… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
“The biggest myth about comedy is that it’s magical, unknowable, unteachable. Those who subscribe to that myth believe that the world is divided into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He marvelled at the assortment of human life spread out before him. The rich brushed shoulders with the poor, Irish men cracked jokes with… — Ken Magee Copy Share Image
In the end, censoring a comedian's jokes is on par with censoring 'Huckleberry Finn.' Now, I'm not comparing myself to Mark Twain - he… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
We learn to laugh from the cultures that suffered most - from the Russians, Poles, and Irish - not from Sweden or France (the… — Tom Malinowski 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
By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity. — David H. Murdock Copy Share Image
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. — Akshay Kumar Copy Share Image
I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
I've seen guys come along with more ability - they've been faster or bigger or stronger - but they never worked hard to develop… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I never want to look back on any moment and say I could have done more. So I go all in. — Scott Haze Copy Share Image
Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
It's what the people wanted at the time, but the country could not be half-segregated and half-integrated, just as it could not be half-slave… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
It's something he used to say when he was happy. It could be a very, very simple day. We might be sitting out on… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era. — Larry Holmes Copy Share Image
What a gift it would be if every child in the country could hear a professional orchestra at least once. — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
If my wisdom could get support from officials, I think society would move forward 20 years. — Chen Guangbiao Copy Share Image
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
