Gore Vidal frasi celebri
“Se una cosa non mi piace lo dico a mia madre. Può interessare al massimo a lei.”
Origine: Dal programma televisivo Che tempo che fa, puntata del 7 gennaio 2007.
“Là potevano fare pettegolezzi, amoreggiare per finta ed evitare la noia, se non la disperazione.”
Gore Vidal libro La statua di sale
Origine: La statua di sale, p. 62
Gore Vidal libro La statua di sale
Origine: La statua di sale, p. 119
Frasi sul mondo di Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal libro La statua di sale
Origine: La statua di sale, p. 190
L'invenzione degli Stati Uniti
Gore Vidal libro Giuliano
Giuliano, p. 26
Giuliano
Gore Vidal Frasi e Citazioni
“Non esistono gli omosessuali; esistono atti omosessuali.”
Origine: Da Pink Triangle and Yellow Star; citato in Luca Fontana, Come il sodomita diventò gay, in Il secolo gay, Diario del mese, gennaio 2006, p. 12.
Origine: Citato in Corriere della sera, 5 novembre 2009.
Gore Vidal libro Myra Breckinridge
Origine: Myra Breckinridge, p. 3
“La follia degli intelligenti è sempre più perniciosa di quella degli idioti.”
Gore Vidal libro Giuliano
Libanio, p. 19
Giuliano
“Teodosio è un politico militare, affascinato dai vescovi.”
Gore Vidal libro Giuliano
Prisco, p. 15
Giuliano
Gore Vidal libro Giuliano
Libanio, p. 13
Giuliano
Gore Vidal: Frasi in inglese
“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
Quoted in "Vidal: 'I'm at the Top of a Very Tiny Heap,'" profile by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times (12 March 1981), Late City Final Edition, Section C, Page 17, Column 1.
1980s
Origine: Death Before Bedtime
"Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)
Variante: In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
Origine: The Essential Gore Vidal
“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
Origine: The American Presidency
“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”
Gore Vidal libro Giuliano
Origine: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 13, Helena
“I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.”
"Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again" (1987)
1980s, At Home (1988)
“Never have children, only grandchildren.”
This was said by Vidal's maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, as recalled by Vidal: "My grandfather, Senator Gore ('I never give advice') was suddenly Polonius; he also changed his usual line from 'Never have children, only grandchildren' to 'Be not fruitful, do not multiply.' " [Palimpsest, ch. 3: The Desire and the Successful Pursuit of the Whole]
Misattributed
On the religious right in America http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=342 <br class="br">2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)
"William Dean Howells" (1983)
1980s, At Home (1988)
“First coffee, then a bowel movement. Then the Muse joins me.”
"Gore Vidal," interview by Gerald Clarke (1974), The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, 5th series (1981)
1970s
"Lincoln and the Priests of Academe"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
Origine: 1990s, Screening History (1992), Ch. 2: Fire Over England, p. 34
“The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he himself becomes.”
"H. Hughes," The New York Review of Books (20 April 1972)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)
2010s, "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" (2013)
