What did Gore Vidal mean by: By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over. - Gore Vidal Writer · USA Copy
+ Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one’s family. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Cards, Fate, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ Apparently, ‘conspiracy stuff’ is now shorthand for unspeakable truth. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Conspiracy, Stuff, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ a writer must always tell the truth (unless he’s a journalist) Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Journalist, Telling The Truth, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Gay, Important, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ One’s neighbor is always the enemy. That is the nature of things. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Enemy, Neighbor, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ The first TV babies are now writing with a TV mind that has no attention span at all. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Baby, Mind, Writing, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Oysters, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
+ For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one’s friends must fail. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gore Vidal, Failing, Successful, True Happiness, 0 - Gore Vidal Writer · USA
The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Poet · France
The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit. - Jean-Claude Juncker Politician · Luxembourg
Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns. - Jeff Goodell
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. - Jeff Greenfield Journalist · USA
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing. - Jefferson Davis Politician · USA
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. - Jefferson Davis Politician · USA
If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory. - Jefferson Davis Politician · USA
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