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Gore Vidal: 189 cytatów0 Polubień
Gore Vidal słynne cytaty
„Nie wystarczy odnieść sukces. Inni muszą ponieść porażkę.”
Źródło: Gerard Irvine, Antipanegyric for Tom Driberg
„Czasem mądrzej jest nie uciekać, lecz spojrzeć w oczy temu, co budzi strach.”
Źródło: Stworzenie świata
Gore Vidal cytaty
„Człowiek nigdy nie wie, kiedy jest szczęśliwy; wie tylko, kiedy był szczęśliwy.”
Źródło: Stworzenie świata
„Byłem zbyt uprzejmy, by spytać.”
w odpowiedzi na pytanie amerykańskiego dziennikarza, czy jego pierwszym seksualnym partnerem był mężczyzna czy kobieta.
Źródło: Slavoj Žižek, Przemoc języka, „Krytyka Polityczna” 22/2010.
na wiecu wyborczym w 1982, gdy kandydował do Kongresu.
fragment wywiadu z końca lat 40.
Gore Vidal: Cytaty po angielsku
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
Quoted in "Vidal: 'I'm at the Top of a Very Tiny Heap,'" profile by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times (12 March 1981), Late City Final Edition, Section C, Page 17, Column 1.
1980s
Źródło: Death Before Bedtime
"Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)
Wariant: In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
Źródło: The Essential Gore Vidal
“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
Źródło: The American Presidency
“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”
Gore Vidal książka Julian
Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 13, Helena
“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
"Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)
“Never have children, only grandchildren.”
This was said by Vidal's maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, as recalled by Vidal: "My grandfather, Senator Gore ('I never give advice') was suddenly Polonius; he also changed his usual line from 'Never have children, only grandchildren' to 'Be not fruitful, do not multiply.' " [Palimpsest, ch. 3: The Desire and the Successful Pursuit of the Whole]
Misattributed
On the religious right in America http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=342 <br class="br">2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)
"William Dean Howells" (1983)
1980s, At Home (1988)
“First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.”
"Gore Vidal," interview by Gerald Clarke (1974), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 5th series (1981)
1970s
"Lincoln and the Priests of Academe"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
Źródło: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 2: Fire Over England, p. 34
“The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.”
"H. Hughes," The New York Review of Books (20 April 1972)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)
2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)
