Gore Vidal Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, People, Personality

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Jun 22, 2012

• There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

  Gore Vidal

  Practice, People, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1990). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Vintage

• One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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  Sorry, Taken, Self

• We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Kings, Artist, Boys

• Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

  Gore Vidal

  Genius, Literature, Warhol

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

• Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

  Gore Vidal

  Pain, Giving, Choices

  1982 Interview in the Observer, 7 Feb.

• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

  Gore Vidal

  Funny, Television, Literature

  "This column will change your life: Couch potatoes v creators" by Oliver Burkeman, August 20, 2010.

• All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Parent, Forever

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc

• The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.

  Gore Vidal

  Finding The One, Car, Literature

• On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

  Gore Vidal

  Debtors, United States, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

  Gore Vidal

  Birthday, Believe, Exercise

  Encounter Dec. 1967, "French Letters: Theories of the New Novel"

• Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Oil, People

• What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Literature, Facts

  "Life Lessons of Wisdom & Motivation - Volume IV: Insightful, Enlightened and Inspirational quotations and proverbs" by M. I. Sek, Providential Press, (p. 37), February 2014.

• What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

  Gore Vidal

  Other Cultures, Culture, Literature

  "United States: Essays 1952-1992 (Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes)". Book by Gore Vidal, May 18, 1993.

• Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

  Gore Vidal

  Sex, Writing, Giving

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

• Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

  Gore Vidal

  Business, Teenager, Adults

• It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.

  Gore Vidal

  Literature, Assuming, Reasonable

  Gore Vidal (1982). “Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)”

• Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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  Hygiene, Literature, World

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections upon a sinking ship”

• Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Writing, Literary Theory

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

• There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

  Gore Vidal

  Mean, Literature, Nouveau Riche

• People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Freud did some serious damage to American literature - a lot of writers began therapy in the 1940s, after which they all became terribly egocentric.

  Gore Vidal

  Literature, Serious, Egocentric

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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