Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal
Gore Vidalwas an American writerand a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 October 1925
CityWest Point, NY
CountryUnited States of America
blowing case cause country great knew negligence night ownership pay people
The ownership of this country has usually been pretty shrewd. They knew what they wanted. They don't want to pay taxes, certainly. They don't want people blowing them up in the night like 9/11. And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that.
half hopes people voted
Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
people
There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
lie sign true
He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.
careful sides thorough
He (Donald) is thorough and very careful not to take sides when there's insufficient evidence,
effects himself kept magician matter public until view
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
dismiss entirely politics
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
corporate dominate encouraged masters plans serving states truth united
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.
anyone except figured fringe good ignorance lost parasites particular police possibly since society sort war
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
forces harness might various
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
religious tribal
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
concentration german jews wore
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
anger nature normal threshold
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.