Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Gore Vidal165 quotes“Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.”
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
Gore VidalGore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I am not, at heart, a playwright.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
Gore VidalGore Vidal We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
Gore VidalGore Vidal As 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 VidalGore Vidal Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
Gore VidalGore Vidal I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
Gore VidalGore Vidal TV news is not very instructive.
Gore VidalGore Vidal 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 VidalGore Vidal World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
Gore VidalGore Vidal There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
Gore VidalGore Vidal There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
Gore VidalGore Vidal Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
Gore VidalGore Vidal The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the Presidency. His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s Vice President is lengthy and disturbing.
Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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