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
people political fifty
Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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What is a political party but a conspiracy?
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Rome ... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.
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My family helped start [this country], we've been in political life ... since the 1690s, and I have a very possessive sense about this country.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
failure envy political
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
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That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine.
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After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.
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I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.