Frasi di Gore Vidal (181 frasi, pagina 3) | Citazioni e frasi celebri

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.

“Uno scrittore non si contenta di avere successo. Per essere realmente in pace con se stesso ha bisogno dell'insuccesso altrui.”

Gore Vidal

Origine: Citato in Corriere della sera, 5 novembre 2009.

“Non comincerò dal principio perché non c'è principio, ma solo da un mezzo in cui tu, fortunato lettore, sei appena capitato, ancora ignaro di ciò che ti faranno nel corso del nostro comune viaggio nel mio intimo. No, nel nostro intimo. Perché noi siamo, almeno nell'atto di questa creazione, una cosa sola, ciascuno nella trappola del tempo: tu dopo, io subito, attentamente, pensosamente formando lettere per comporre parole che compongano frasi.”

Gore Vidal libro Myra Breckinridge

Origine: Myra Breckinridge, p. 3

“Da Gran Perdente è diventato un perfetto trionfo riuscendo a perdere la presidenza in modo più grandioso e originale di chiunque altro abbia fatto prima d'ora.”

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“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

“Poco tempo fa, uno studente (cristiano, come no?) mi ha consigliato, con molto garbo, di imparare il latino. A me, Libanio! Alla mia età e dopo una vita intera dedicata al greco! Gli ho risposto che, non essendo un avvocato, non avevo bisogno di leggere niente in quella brutta lingua, che ha prodotto un solo poema, una desolante parafrasi del nostro grande Omero.”

Gore Vidal libro Giuliano

Libanio, p. 13
Giuliano

Gore Vidal: Frasi in inglese

“Well, the Constitution has not yet been pregnant.”

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As quoted in "Jah" http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=CB6SOQCvoIM (15 August 2004), Da Ali G Show 2000s

“Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”

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"The State of the Union," The Nation (13 September 2004)
2000s

“In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue.”

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Origine: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 1, Priscus to Libanius, Antioch June 380

“I used to be able to summon up scenes at will, but now aging memory is so busy weeding its own garden that, promiscuously, it pulls up roses as well as crabgrass.”

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Origine: 1990s, Palimpsest : A Memoir (1995), Ch. 12: The Guest of the Blue Nuns, p. 162

“Are we a dream in the mind of a deity, or is each of us a separate dreamer, evoking his own reality?”

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Origine: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5

“Apparently, "conspiracy stuff" is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.”

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"The Enemy Within" https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html, The Observer (27 October 2002) 2000s

“Well, it's been the monopolizing of great wealth, which tends to happen in basically unjust societies and undemocratic societies. We have plenty of would-be democrats, would-be liberals, and would-be progressives. But how do you organize? The Democratic Party is a machine to get votes for its people, none of who should probably be elected to the high offices of state. That's all. The Republican Party is fundamentally crooked and might well be outlawed one of these days. Le Pen, you know, in France, who is an out-and-out fascist, the French have managed in some clever way to contain him. I mean, he's always running for president; his votes never seem to show up. I don't know how they do it, but we've got to do that with the Republican base, the religious right. We don't want them running the country. Nobody does. Certainly not the founding fathers. And I think we have to ride herd on them and make sure they do not seize the state.”

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On fascism http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=342 2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)

“I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.”

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Quoted in The Guardian, by Ryszard Kapuściński, in "Vidal salon" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview14 (5 May 2007) 2000s

“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.”

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1990s, The Decline and Fall of the American Empire (1992)

“Despite all evidence to the contrary I do not believe humans innately cruel, but they fear change of any kind.”

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Origine: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 5, Libanius

“You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.”

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On the Media http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=345 2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)

“After four centuries, Montaigne's curious genius still has that effect on his readers and, time and again, one finds in his self-portrait one's own most brilliant aperçus (the ones that somehow we forgot to write down and so forgot) restored to us in his essays—attempts—to assay—value—himself in his own time as well as, if he was on the subject, all time, if there is such a thing.”

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"Montaigne"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)

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

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"French Letters: The Theory of the New Novel," http://books.google.com/books?id=U_YmAQAAIAAJ&q=%22It+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%22&pg=PA317#v=onepage Encounter magazine (December 1967) "French Letters: Theories of the New Novel," http://books.google.com/books?id=T4lBAAAAIAAJ&q=%22It+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%22&pg=PA24#v=onepage Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship (1969) 1960s

“Liberal' comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why the word had to be erased from our political lexicon.”

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"America First? America Last? America at Last?," Lowell Lecture, Harvard University (20 April 1992)
1990s

“We do not, of course, write literary criticism at all now. Academe has won the battle in which Wilson fought so fiercely on the other side. Ambitious English teachers now invent systems that have nothing to do with literature or life but everything to do with those games that must be played in order for them to rise in the academic bureaucracy. Their works are empty indeed. But then, their works are not meant to be full. They are to be taught, not read. The long dialogue has broken down. Fortunately, as Flaubert pointed out, the worst thing about the present is the future. One day there will be no… But I have been asked not to give the game away. Meanwhile, I shall drop a single hint: Only construct!”

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"Edmund Wilson: This Critic and This Gin and These Shoes", closing lines
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)

“As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.”

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Quoted in profile by Martin Amis, "Mr. Vidal: Unpatriotic Gore" (1977) in The Moronic Inferno (1987).
1970s

“Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.”

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Quoted by Bob Chieger, Was It Good For You, Too? (1983).
1980s

“Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.”

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"Sex Is Politics" (1979)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)

“The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. No other religion ever considered it necessary to destroy others because they did not share the same beliefs. At worst, another man's belief might inspire amusement or contempt—the Egyptians and their animal gods, for instance. Yet those who worshipped the Bull did not try to murder those who worshipped the Snake, or to convert them by force from Snake to Bull. No evil ever entered the world quite so vividly or on such a vast scale as Christianity did.”

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Origine: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 7, Priscus

“American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.”

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Gore Vidal libro Two Sisters

Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel http://books.google.com/books?id=xnJbAAAAMAAJ&q=&quot;American+writers+want+to+be+not+good+but+great+and+so+are+neither&quot; (1970) 1970s

“On the throne of the world, any delusion becomes fact.”

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Origine: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 12

“Congress no longer declares war or makes budgets. So that's the end of the constitution as a working machine.”

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"America First? America Last? America at Last?," Lowell Lecture, Harvard University (20 April 1992)
1990s

“Nothing that Shakespeare ever invented was to equal Lincoln's invention of himself and, in the process, us.”

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"Lincoln and the Priests of Academe"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved — Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal — God is the Omnipotent Father — hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose.”

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"America First? America Last? America at Last?" https://archive.is/20121212151230/www.dce.harvard.edu/pubs/lowell/gvidal.html, Lowell Lecture, Harvard University (20 April 1992) 1990s

“In a nation that has developed to a high art advertising, the creator who refuses to advertise himself is immediately suspected of having no product worth selling.”

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"William Dean Howells" (1983)
1980s, At Home (1988)

“Vengeance must end somewhere, and what better place to stop than at the prince?”

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Origine: 1960s, Julian (1964), Chapter 2

“The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.”

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"The State of the Union" (1975)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972), Matters of Fact and Fiction : Essays 1973 - 1976 (1978)