Gore Quotes - Page 4

• I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

  Gore Vidal

  Witty, Sex, Powerful

  "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia: Tribeca Review" by Frank Scheck, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 19, 2013.

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• Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

  Gore Vidal

  Pain, Giving, Choices

  1982 Interview in the Observer, 7 Feb.

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• It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

  Gore Vidal

  Failure, Envy, Political

  Quoted in Newport (R.I.) Daily News, 3 Nov. 1978

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• Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

  Gore Vidal

  Genius, Literature, Warhol

  "Gore Vidal quotes: 26 of the best", www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

  Gore Vidal

  Suicide, Writing, Notes

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.17, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Alcohol, Bedtime

  Paris Review Interview (1981), later quoted in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series", 1981.

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• There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

  Gore Vidal

  Doe, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

  1968 Sex, Death and Money, preface. See Frost 338:84.

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• 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

  Sex, Writing, Giving

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.

  Bradley Whitford

  Issues, Talking, Giving

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• In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

  Juan Williams

  College, Florida, Worst Case Scenario

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• Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Born, Company

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.

  Edmund Spenser

  Purple, Vow, Malice

  Edmund Spenser (1849). “The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings”, p.193

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• I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with gore, and to allow his lips to touch the flesh of a murdered being: who spread his table with the mangled forms of dead bodies, and claimed as daily food and dainty dishes what but now were beings endowed with movement, perception and with voice. …but for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh, we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that portion of life and time it had been born in to the world to enjoy.

  Plutarch

  Men, Light, Voice

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• I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

  D. J. MacHale

  Reader, Pendragon, Series

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• It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so, since on camera they appear to be brain-damaged wimps with severe eating disorders. But put them at a police barricade and a miraculous thing happens...The strength comes from some mysterious place-and somehow, when there is gore on the ground, these anorexic creatures can push their way through anything. Without mussing their hair, too.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Hard Work, Thinking, Hair

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• What a marshmallow. You should hold out for someone with a stronger stomach. Someone who laughs at the gore that makes weaker men vomit.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Men, Laughing, Stronger

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• We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century.

  Dan Quayle

  Holocaust, Dumb Celebrity, Century

  Campaign remark, Moore, Okla., 15 Sept. 1988. These remarks were quoted in the L.A. Times, 16 Sept. 1988.

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• For the record, surgeries aren't pretty. there's a hideous sense of intimately inappropriate exposure to another human being, and it feel something like accidentally walking in on a naked parent. Only there's more gore. Bits are exposed that just shouldn't be out in the open, and they're covered in blood. Its embarrassing, disgusting, and unsettling all at the same time." Harry Dresden, Turn Coat.

  Jim Butcher

  Blood, Parent, Naked

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• Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

  Louis Sachar

  Fall, School, Kids

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• To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.

  Robert Kirkman

  Character, Zombie, World

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• Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Lonely, Eye, Passion

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• Tanith frowned. Did people still go on DATES any more? She was sure they did. They probably called it something different though. She tried to think of the last date she'd been on. The last PROPER date. Did fighting side by side with Saracen Rue count as a date? They ended up snuggling under the moonlight, drenched in gore and pieces of brain - so it had PROBABLY been a date. If it wasn't, it was certainly a fun time had by all. Well, not ALL. But she and Saracen had sure had a blast.

  Derek Landy

  Fun, Fighting, Thinking

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• Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Men, Cities

  "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, February 11, 2003.

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• So John took out of his pocket A knife both long and sharp, And stuck it through his brother's heart, And the blood came pouring down. Says John to William, "Take off thy shirt, And tear it from gore to gore, And wrap it round your bleeding heart, And the blood will pour no more.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Blood

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

  Edwin Markham

  Encouraging, Kindness, Adversity

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