Gore Vidal Quotes on Relationships
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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
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When I was young, I was bored shitless with being desired by others. I don't look in the mirror anymore.
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I lived with Howard [Austen] for fifty years, but what we had was certainly not romantic love, not passionate love. And it certainly was nonsexual. Try to explain that to the fags.
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'You got to meet everyone - Jackie Kennedy, William Burroughs.' People always put that sentence the wrong way around. I mean, why not put it the true way, that these people got to meet me, and wanted to? Otherwise it sounds like I spent my life hustling around trying to meet people: 'Oh, look, there's the governor.'
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I met a lot of people, but I didn't get to know them.