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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal
Children, Humorous, Kids
Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

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Children, Doctors, Class
"Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

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Children, Parent, Forever
Gore Vidal (1968). “Weekend: A Comedy in Two Acts”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc

Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

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Children, Pain, School
"The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.

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Children, Revenge, Dark

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.

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Children, Character, Drawing
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

I was taught to read by my grandmother. Central to her method was a tale of unnatural love called 'The Duck and the Kangaroo'. Then, because my grandfather, Senator Gore, was blind, I was required early on to read grown-up books to him, mostly constitutional law and, of course, the Congressional Record. The later continence of my style is a miracle, considering those years of piping the additional remarks of Mr. Borah of Idaho.

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Children, Book, Grandmother

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

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Lonely, Children, Book
Gore Vidal (1994). “Screening History”

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

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Children, Fall, Character
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

Gore Vidal
Children, Fall, Drinking

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