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Gore Vidal

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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.


— Gore Vidal


#between #birch #bringing #consenting #consenting adults

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.


— Gore Vidal


#anything #builds #certainly #done #gives

We're not a democracy.


— Gore Vidal


What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?


— Gore Vidal


#culture #joke #like #other #produced

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.


— Gore Vidal


#litigation #middle #middle age #place #sex

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.


— Gore Vidal


#cannot #choose #literature #lose #made

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.


— Gore Vidal


#both #branches #could #multiple #road

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.


— Gore Vidal


#drink #others #some #take #writers

Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.


— Gore Vidal


#desperately #hungry #material #now #scraping

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.


— Gore Vidal


#because #books #busyness #how #many






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What a Concept. The producers later made an attempt to salvage some of Vidal's vision in the film's post-production. " During the taping of the show there was a legendary on-camera feud between Vidal and Mailer over what Vidal had written about the latter prompting Mailer to say: "I've had to smell your works from time to time.

His most widely regarded social novel was Myra Breckinridge; his best known historical novels included Julian Burr and Lincoln. In addition to this he characterised the United States as a decaying empire from the 1980s onwards. " Ben-Hur won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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