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
w programie telewizyjnym z lat 80.
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
On the Republican Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0p-wfCARk&feature=youtu.be&t=46s
2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)
"Lincoln and the Priests of Academe"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
“World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.”
"The Twelve Caesars"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
"Dawn Powell: The American Writer" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)
2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)
2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)
"Cue the Green God, Ted" (1991).
1990s, A View from the Diner's Club (1991)
"First Note on Abraham Lincoln"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
"America First? America Last? America at Last?," Lowell Lecture, Harvard University (20 April 1992).
1990s
“That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.”
"President and Mrs. U.S. Grant" (1975)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972), Matters of Fact and Fiction : Essays 1973 - 1976 (1978)
"The State of the Union," The Nation (13 September 2004)
2000s
"Writing Plays for Television" in New World Writing, #10 (1956)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)
“I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.”
TV interview with David Frost and quoted in The Sunday Times Magazine 16 September 1973 http://books.google.com/books?id=4cl5c4T9LWkC&lpg=PA754&q=%22I'm+all+for+bringing+back+the+birch+but+only+between+consenting+adults%22&pg=PA754#v=onepage
1970s
“Men are odd. If they cannot be first, they don't in the least mind being last.”
Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 8
"Lincoln and the Priests of Academe"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380
“We are all so simple at heart that become unfathomable to one another.”
Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 7
2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)
"Love Love Love," Partisan Review (Spring 1959)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)
“The folly of the clever is always more than that of the dull.”
Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch April 380
“Celebrities are invariably celebrity-mad, just as liars always believe liars.”
Źródło: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 18: To Do Well What Should Not Be Done at All, p. 311
Oscar Wilde. Yet again. Why?
Opening lines to "Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5
Źródło: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 7: "Today My Nerves Are Shattered. But I Am Indomitable!," pp. 107-108
2000s, What I've Learned (2008)
On the American South's switch from Democrat to Republican http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=342
2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)