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“Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.”

Quote by Gore Vidal

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American writer, playwright, screenwriter, and critic. Known for his sharp political satire and profound historical insight, Vidal's work spans a variety of genres including novels, plays, screenplays, and criticism. more

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“The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.”

Reason Together Suffering Family Groups Economic West Edges Stranger Finished Odd Reason To Live Jagged Edge

Author:Gore Vidal

“Many human beings enjoy sexual relations with their own sex; many don't; many respond to both. This plurality is part of our nature and not worth fretting about.”

Humans Sex Enjoy Human Beings Relation Homosexuality Fretting

Book:Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings

Source: Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings

“Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.”

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Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money

“Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied - as would anybody in his position.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.”

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Book:Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)

Source: Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)

“Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later.”

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Book:Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)

Source: Pink triangle and yellow star, and other essays (1976-1982)

“All Americans born between 1890 and 1945 wanted to be movie stars.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.”

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Book:Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)

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“In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.”

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Book:Sex, Death, and Money

Source: Sex, Death, and Money