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Источник: «Правила жизни» Esquire
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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, and 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.
лекция в Гарвардском университете 20 апреля 1992 America First? America Last? America at Last?
Источник: Ричард Докинз, «Бог как иллюзия» (2006) // пер. с англ. Н. Смелковой. — М: КоЛибри (Иностранка), 2008. — гл. 2 (эпиграф к разделу Монотеизм).
Гор Видал: Цитаты на английском языке
“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
Источник: Death Before Bedtime
"Thomas Love Peacock: The Novel of Ideas" (1980)
1980s, The Second American Revolution (1983)
Вариант: In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.
Источник: The Essential Gore Vidal
“a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)”
Источник: The American Presidency
“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”
Gore Vidal книга Julian
Источник: 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)
Источник: 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)
