Гор Видал цитаты
Гор Видал
Дата рождения: 3. Октябрь 1925
Дата смерти: 31. Июль 2012
Ю́джин Лю́тер Гор Вида́л — американский писатель, эссеист, кино- и театральный драматург, признанный классик американской литературы второй половины XX века. Заметная фигура культурной и политической жизни США на протяжении последних шестидесяти лет.
Цитаты Гор Видал
„How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.“
— Gore Vidal, Julian
Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380
„Half the American people never read a newspaper. Half never vote for President — the same half?“
— Gore Vidal, Screening History
Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 5
Sometimes quoted as: Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.
„Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the higher altruism.“
— Gore Vidal
Context: Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the higher altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for the freedom not only to conform but to consume.
Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 24
