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«American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.»
Author: Gore Vidal
«There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.»
Author: Gore Vidal
«The ownership of this country has usually been pretty shrewd. They knew what they wanted. They don't want to pay taxes, certainly. They don't want people blowing them up in the night like 9/11. And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that.»
Author: Gore Vidal
«Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.»
Author: Gore Vidal
«That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.»
Author: Gore Vidal | About: Books, Writers | Keywords: busyness, recalls
«This is not at all bad, except as prose.»
Author: Gore Vidal
«I don't want anything. I don't want a job. I don't want to be respectable. I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diners Club.»
«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.»
«Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.»
Author: Gore Vidal | Keywords: succeeds
«Miss Georgia and Mr Shaker Heights.»
Author: Gore Vidal | Keywords: Georgia, shaker, Shakers

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