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
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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.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.
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Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.
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If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
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If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.
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I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.
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The United States is my subject, but as Hawthorne once wrote, "the United States are suited for many admirable purposes, but not to live in."
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country — and we haven't seen them since.
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We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
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I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.