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Wednesday, 1 August 2012
quote [ Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.m. Tuesday of complications from pneumonia, Burr Steers said. Vidal had been living alone in the home and had been sick for "quite a while," he said. ]
Another titan gone.
Gore Vidal Quotes: 26 of the Best
[literature] [by pleaides@10:20amGMT] [+10 Informative] http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/01/gore-vidal-best-quotes?CMP=twt_gu |
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ahPook
said @ 10:45am GMT on 1st Aug
Only yesterday I quoted Vidal: "No good deed goes unpunished". |
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* (The Asshole FKA Morris)
said @ 11:38am GMT on 1st Aug
I gored myself on a fooz ball table handle yesterday. |
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sanepride
said @ 2:51pm GMT on 1st Aug
I hope you didn't lose too much vidal fluid. |
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pleaides
said @ 12:29pm GMT on 1st Aug
There are some corking quotes in the list of 26 linked above, and I admit that I had no idea whatsoever that they were his. He's almost as pithy as Twain. |
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granitewitch
said @ 11:48am GMT on 1st Aug
I have yet to read one of his works. or Norman Mailer's. The most I know about them is the confrontation on the Dick Cavett Show. |
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granitewitch
said @ 11:52am GMT on 1st Aug
[Score:3]
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radioelectric
said @ 10:47pm GMT on 1st Aug
"At the December 15, 1971, taping of The Dick Cavett Show, with Janet Flanner and Gore Vidal, Mailer, annoyed with a less-than-stellar review by Vidal of Prisoner of Sex, apparently headbutted Vidal and traded insults with him backstage.[14] As the show began taping, a visibly belligerent Mailer, who admitted he had been drinking,[14] goaded Vidal and Cavett into trading insults with him on air and continually referred to his "greater intellect". He openly taunted and mocked Vidal (who responded in kind), finally earning the ire of Flanner, who announced that the discussion had become "extremely boring", telling Mailer "You act as if you're the only people here." As Cavett made jokes comparing Mailer's intellect to his ego, Mailer stated "Why don't you look at your question sheet and ask your question?", to which Cavett responded "Why don't you fold it 5 ways and shove it where the moon don't shine?"[14][15]" - Wikipedia |
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Nostrildamus
said @ 12:03pm GMT on 1st Aug
. |
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pleaides
said @ 12:28pm GMT on 1st Aug
Heh. I was waiting for that. |
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Naruki
said @ 2:34am GMT on 2nd Aug
He never saw it coming. |
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sqmagellan
said @ 12:40pm GMT on 1st Aug
What about Abe? |
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arrowhen
said @ 2:49pm GMT on 1st Aug
Thanks for linkin' that. |
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sanepride
said @ 3:34pm GMT on 1st Aug
I would never actually wish death on anyone, especially the indefatigable Mr. Vigoda, but I will be frankly relieved to see the retirement of this particularly stale meme. |
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arrowhen
said @ 4:14pm GMT on 1st Aug
Hey, if famous old dudes would stop dying so often, we could stop using it so much! |
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HoZay
said @ 12:51pm GMT on 1st Aug
:( |
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Gesualdo
said @ 1:21pm GMT on 1st Aug
Sad. At one point in my life I loved his Live from Golgotha. |
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sanepride
said @ 1:56pm GMT on 1st Aug
Seems like a good opportunity to employ the under-utilized 'Literature' category. |
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pleaides
said @ 2:03pm GMT on 1st Aug
I had completely forgotten that it existed. |
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sanepride
said @ 2:10pm GMT on 1st Aug
It has not been a good year for people named 'Vidal'. |
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lilmookieesquire
said @ 3:19pm GMT on 1st Aug
I don't think there has been a good year for any people named Vidal in at least 1000 years. |
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arrowhen
said @ 4:35pm GMT on 1st Aug
[Score:3 Funny]
Vidal's death in a freak religious carpentry accident looks much more suspicious in light of his long-standing feud with a Mormon nailer. |
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superargo
said @ 8:27am GMT on 2nd Aug
He must have called William Buckly a cryptonazi again. Amirite fellas? Amirite? Hahahahaha. |
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Cakkafracle
said @ 8:30pm GMT on 2nd Aug
i was never one for his hair products |
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Spyike
said @ 10:12pm GMT on 2nd Aug
Really? Jokes? Sassoon? |
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