Gore Vidal Quotes

In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

Gore Vidal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I probably owe my political dismay to New Labour, but also my growing sense that the satirical shape of human affairs is international and historical, not glued to the tawdry ambitions of a team of politicians who represent nothing but themselves.

Andrew O'Hagan

TeamPoliticalNewGrowingNothing

Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.

Andre Aciman

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I was as much at first probably against Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather as anyone else but... as soon as I turned off the purity of the combat sports thing, this is a business. Guys, we're all trying to make a living, we're all trying to entertain people and guess what, it's the second-biggest PPV in history regardless of how you feel about it.

Mauro Ranallo

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The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

Sigmar Gabriel

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My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

Tony Parsons

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The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

Ronald Fisher

AnalysisRatherConvenientTheorem

I was just a little three-year-old kid, and I loved Hulk Hogan. And when you're a three-year-old kid, you don't list off the reasons. I was just drawn to him. He was always my favorite, even in the video games and everything like that. He was the one that I always remembered and liked the most.

Ronda Rousey

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Net neutrality is the principle forbidding huge telecommunications companies from treating users, websites, or apps differently - say, by letting some work better than others over their pipes.

Marvin Ammori

WorkBetterSayOthersWebsites

I find directing more satisfying.

Michael Shanks

FindMoreDirectingSatisfying

If I read something on the news that really irritates me, I get my rageful venting out on Twitter. I'm more of my light side on Instagram.

Jonathan Van Ness

LightMeNewsMoreOutSide

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.

Donald Glover

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When I signed back with Detroit, I signed to retire a Piston.

Chauncey Billups

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