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Quotes from Visit to a Small Planet — Gore Vidal

1925–2012 United States

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DELTON 4: He is morally retarded and, like a child, he regards this world as his plaything.…

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

ELLEN: Conrad’s a pacifist and willing to fight for it.

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

And though I rather suspect that in a century’s time the novel will be as rare and private an art form as poetry today or that delicate and laborious process by which dedicated men fire glass with color, it will always be worth the doing.

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

KRETON: But I love having you bore me. You do it so beautifully.

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

KRETON: My dear, you must marry him too. I’m sure the three of you would make a lovely couple.

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

After the script was ready there were the usual trials, delays, problems of temperament: each participant confident the others had gone into secret league to contrive his professional ruin (and on occasion cabals did flourish…the theater is a child’s world).

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

POWERS: Well, good morning Mr. Kreton, and how are we today?
KRETON: Absolutely wallowing in the twentieth century.

Visit to a Small Planet (1957)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gore Vidal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.