Gore Vidal cytaty
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Gore Vidal, właśc. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, pseud. Edgar Box – amerykański pisarz, dramaturg, scenarzysta i polityk, tworzący zarówno w USA jak i we Włoszech. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Październik 1925 – 31. Lipiec 2012
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Gore Vidal: 189   Cytatów 0   Polubień

Gore Vidal słynne cytaty

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„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

„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.

Gore Vidal: Cytaty po angielsku

“We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.”

As quoted by Dick Cavett, in "The Swimmers" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/books/review/Cavett-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin, The New York Times (3 June 2007)
2000s

“To speak today of a famous novelist is like speaking of a famous cabinetmaker or speedboat designer. Adjective is inappropriate to noun.”

Źródło: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, pp.2-3

“Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.”

"Sex Is Politics" (1979)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.”

"F. Scott Fitzgerald's Case" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“There is no terror equal that of the ignorant in a strange place.”

Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 16

“We're supposed to procreate and society, god knows, is ferocious on the subject. Heterosexuality is considered such a great and natural good that you have to execute people and put them in prison if they don't practice this glorious act.”

"American psyche" http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/features/article171192.ece, extract from interview with Anthony Clare on BBC Radio 4, "In the Psychiatrist's Chair"; published in The Independent (8 October 2000).
2000s

“Don’t ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren’t any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I’m never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.”

The Times Online http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece, (30 September 2009)
2000s

“…American society, literary or lay, tends to be humorless. What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?”

"Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)

“I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.”

Quoted in profile by Martin Amis, "Mr. Vidal: Unpatriotic Gore" (1977) in The Moronic Inferno (1987)
1970s

“Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition.”

Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5

“I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).”

Preface http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/vidal_su95.html
1990s, The City and the Pillar and Seven Early Stories (1995)

“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.”

"Sex and the Law," Partisan Review (Summer 1965)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

“…for ferocity there is nothing on Earth equal a Christian bishop hunting "heresy", as they call any opinion contrary to their own.”

Źródło: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Priscus to Libanius, Athens March 380

“There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.”

Preface to Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship http://books.google.com/books?id=LXFbAAAAMAAJ&q="There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem" (1969)
Preface to Sex, Death, and Money http://books.google.com/books?id=54JBAAAAIAAJ&q="There+is+something+about+a+bureaucrat+that+does+not+like+a+poem" (1969)
1960s

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