“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
― Gore Vidal #gorevidal
“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.”
― Gore Vidal #gorevidal
(“I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”
― Gore Vidal #gorevidal
“I'm exactly as I appear. There is no warm lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.”
― Gore Vidal #gorevidal
“There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.”
― Gore Vidal, Death in the Fifth Position #gorevidal
“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.”
― Gore Vidal #gorevidal
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Gore Vidal, Screening History #gorevidal
“There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.”
― Gore Vidal, Death in the Fifth Position #gorevidal
"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice like, Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."
#gorevidal #democracy
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal #throneoftheworld
The infamous feud between #novelist #NormanMailer and #writer #GoreVidal comes to a head in a battle of wit, sarcasm, and condescension with the audience and #JanetFlanner (reluctantly) in the front row youtu.be/Nb1w_qoioOk?...
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal
RE: masto.ai/@RobertJackson58585858/1...
Thus snippet from #GoreVidal quotes #MichaelFoot defending Peter #Mandelson on the grounds that Peter was the grandson of #HerbertMorrison, a huge figure in the #LabourParty in the 1930s and 1940s.
Is that why Labour not just […]
✍️ Gore Vidal was an American essayist, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and public intellectual who dominated America’s 20th-century cultural scene. He is considered one of the United States’ finest essayists and critics.
#gorevidal #writers #writerquotes
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal #throne #world #delusion #fact
Authors of the Year: 2012
The most significant authors who died in 2012.
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
Ray Bradbury (1920-2012)
#Booksky #AuthorOftheYear #Gorevidal #RayBradbury #Lincoln #MartianChronicles #Americannovelists
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal
“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal
You know what I like about #WilliamFBuckleyJr is that he knew his shit, from his angle, and really never was seriously challenged because of that in any debate, including the free-for-all with #GoreVidal. #WFBJr is every talking hard right idiot's predecessor. He was confrontational.
The halcyon days when they invited real intellectuals onto chat shows instead of just celebrities plugging their terrible movies #GoreVidal #JohnnyCarson #1981
“It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.”
― Gore Vidal #gorevidal
“Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.”
― Gore Vidal #gorevidal
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal
“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian #gorevidal
