It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.
Gore VidalNo good deed goes unpunished
Gore VidalHalf of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore VidalStichwörter: politics america hope elections vote american-ts americans educated-voters political-education
As 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 VidalStichwörter: politics
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.
Gore VidalStichwörter: life-and-death
[Professor] Frank recalled my idle remark some years ago: 'Never pass up the opportunity to have sex or appear on television.' Advice I would never give today in the age of AIDS and its television equivalent Fox News.
Gore VidalLittle Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be
at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means.
It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.
Never have children, only grandchildren.
Gore VidalStichwörter: advice
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 VidalStichwörter: speeches politicians
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 VidalStichwörter: politics language propoganda political-correctness euphemisms
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