Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
GORE VIDALToday’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
GORE VIDALI know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
GORE VIDALAs the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
GORE VIDALSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDALI can understand companionship.
GORE VIDALThe American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
GORE VIDALLike the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
GORE VIDALIn classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
GORE VIDALIt is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
GORE VIDALBy the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
GORE VIDALAs for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
GORE VIDALThere is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
GORE VIDALI was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
GORE VIDALThere is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
GORE VIDALOne is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
GORE VIDALAs for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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