Gore Vidal nejznámější citáty
Gore Vidal citáty a výroky
Zdroj: [Hari, Johann, Gore Vidal: Za duchy amerického století, literarky.cz, 2009-10-20, 2011-02-19, http://www.literarky.cz/component/content/article/1485-gore-vidal-za-duchy-americkeho-stoleti]
„Nikdy neměj děti. Jenom vnoučata.“
(en) Never have children, only grandchildren.
Zdroj: [Vidal, Gore, Palimpsest: a memoir, Random House, 1995, 33, anglicky]
„Narcista je člověk, který vypadá lépe než vy.“
[(en) A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.]
Zdroj: [The American spectator, Svazek 26, 1993, 80, anglicky]
Zdroj: [Hari, Johann, Gore Vidal: Za duchy amerického století, literarky.cz, 2009-10-20, 2011-02-19, http://www.literarky.cz/component/content/article/1485-gore-vidal-za-duchy-americkeho-stoleti]
Gore Vidal: Citáty anglicky
“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
Zdroj: Death Before Bedtime
"Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)
Varianta: In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
Zdroj: The Essential Gore Vidal
“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
Zdroj: The American Presidency
“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”
Gore Vidal kniha Julian
Zdroj: 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)
Zdroj: 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)
