I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALI’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
GORE VIDALIn character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
GORE VIDALI never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
GORE VIDALThere is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
GORE VIDALAs societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
GORE VIDALI’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALI don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
GORE VIDALTelevision is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
GORE VIDALThe United States is a madhouse.
GORE VIDALThe only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
GORE VIDALThere is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
GORE VIDALBaseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
GORE VIDALTo get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
GORE VIDALThe media can’t get anything straight.
GORE VIDALI am only at home in the present.
GORE VIDALApparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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