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Gore Vidal Quotes

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012

Topics

Time Words People City Action Grow

I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.

Knowledge Mistake Treat Think Same

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

Time Myself Me Thought Go Said

The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.

Power Great Pen Hold Deal Word

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Moment Survive Last Every Except

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

People Me Game Thinking Interesting

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

Men Comedy Like Most Parts Really

I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Government People Door Think You

So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.

Genius Okay Van Albert Einstein Were

In my off-time, I do record. Once in a while, I'll just go into the studio if there's a really good song that I have in my head and want to do. I think, as artists, you're constantly in creative motion. If I stopped writing songs, then that's a part of me that would stop in my life, and I need constant motion.

Life Good Creative Me Writing Song

My priority will always be my performance more than anything associated with a film. I always look forward to give my best to the character I play on screen.

Character Best Performance Forward

I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can gain just from reading the story, as well as the script, are so massive that it's something you just can't put down.

Asa Butterfield

Reading Story You Down Actor Things

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit is weak then the flesh fade, seen?

Creation Fade Spirit Never Mean See

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