Gore Vidal Quotes About Character

• Los jóvenes son más esperanzados a cierta edad que los adultos, pero sospecho que eso es glandular. En cuanto a los niños, me mantengo lo más lejos posible de ellos. No me gusta verlos. La balanza está toda equivocada. Las cabezas suelen ser demasiado grandes para los cuerpos, y las manos y los pies son un desastre. No paran de caerse en las cosas. ¡La desnudez de su mal carácter! Los adultos hemos aprendido a disimular nuestro terrible carácter, pero los niños, bueno, son como dibujos grotescos de nosotros. No deben ser vistos ni oídos, y nadie debe hacer otro.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Drinking

• Memory is strange. Scientifically, it is not a mechanical means of repeating something. I can think a thousand times about when I broke my leg at the age of ten, but it is never the same thing which comes to mind when I think about it. My memory of this event has never been, in reality, anything except the memory of my last memory of that event. This is why I use the image of a palimpsest - something written over something partially erased - that is what memory is for me. It's not a film you play back in exactly the same way. It's like theater, with characters who appear from time to time.

  Gore Vidal

  Memories, Character, Mean

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

• Me mantengo lo más lejos posible de los niños. No me gusta su tamaño; la escala está mal. La cabeza tiende a ser demasiado grande para los cuerpos y las manos y los pies son un desastre y no paran de caerse en las cosas, y la desnudez de su mal carácter.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Character

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Character, Drawing

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

  Gore Vidal

  Character, Thinking, Race

  Gore Vidal (1992). “Screening history”, Harvard Univ Pr

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