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ryujoonwooh: [명언]Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)

gracewa86563791: A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.,Gore Vidal,definitions, envy,

uga_joe: "There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public." ~ Gore Vidal

gleg44: Everyone is talking about Gore Vidal’s Duluth

RotNScoundrel: “On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.” - Gore Vidal

rc_wisehack: From Gore Vidal's "At Home" essays, particularly "Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection", p. 36

samaayaser574: A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. - Gore Vidal

rc_wisehack: --Gore Vidal, "Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection", p. 37

rc_wisehack: "Suddenly, one hears the somewhat surprising voice of Bill Tilden, who has written, 'Never change a winning game, and always change a losing one', a maxim that must be reversed when applied to art." --Gore Vidal

k_robtoo: Stumbled upon a story about the alleged tryst between Gore Vidal and Jack Kerouac. I have nothing to add, I’m just trying to picture how it happened and which one was the first to stop talking long enough for said tryst to occur.

juncassis: this is a gore vidal quote i learned from rupaul

ktguru: "...guilty of something or other [like] insufficient bigotry." We all painfully miss Gore Vidal's savagely-delightful wit, when discussing the swamp. Even those that never read him.

KdMarrison: The money system dates back to Babylonian times when humans garhered into cities ‘Creation’ by Gore Vidal documents the rise of World religions & the ‘Sky Gods’ Excellent for understanding today

rc_wisehack: observes; and the only constant is change--hence, the romantic's agony." --Gore Vidal, "Frederic Prokosch: The European Connection", p. 33 of "At Home: Essays 1982-1988"

ultrafuturist: this is why i find the tradition of Smug Intellectualism from Gore Vidal and the like appealing even though I can never fully commit for structural reasons. theres just so much idiocy in the average person's head it turns into a gordian knot that people get mad at you for cutting

abrahamjoseph: Gore Vidal probably would have misgendered me just to tick me off if we met at a party and honestly that just makes me want to read him more

abrahamjoseph: Back in the day you would go to the bookstore and the only books they had were by Gore Vidal

marcsatweetin: "The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return" Gore Vidal. He wasn’t referring to 2020s Canada but it sure fits

MortarPestleUSA: Gore Vidal History of The National Security State: Includes Vidal on America:

Jenndola: So then I googled Gattaca to see what year it came out (1997) at which point I saw freakin GORE VIDAL on the cast list

Jenndola: Me: Why was GORE VIDAL in this movie?

Jenndola: So THEN I looked up Gore Vidal on Wikipedia

mudslinger572: If you think anything has changed in the past 50+ years in politics you haven't been paying attention. Watch Gore Vidal & William Buckley debates of 1968. Same problems. It's all a game

GregSheffield: Stephen Hawking wanted me to use his promotional mechanism instead of Gore Vidal's.

ryujoonwooh: [명언]Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)

littleballohate: It is not enough that I should win. Others must also fail. Gore Vidal ( not a welfare queen)

skulthorp: The William F. Buckley v Gore Vidal of our time

R_Greenhorn: "Confiding to Gore Vidal" was the way you blabbed about yourself to the public before Social Media

IritanoRichard: ❝It doesn't make any difference whether the Pres. is Rep/Dem. The genius of the Amer. ruling class is that they’ve duped voters in electing presidents for 200 yrs. when they've had no say about the candidates, the policies, or the way that the country is run.❞ —Gore Vidal

IritanoRichard: ❝It doesn't make any difference whether the Pres. is Rep/Dem. The genius of the Amer. ruling class is that they’ve duped voters in electing presidents for 200 yrs. when they've had no say about the candidates, the policies, or the way that the country is run.❞ —Gore Vidal

FadedAfRuatha: If my name was Gore Vidal you could bet your ass I would be in a death metal band, shame they didn't exist in the 40's

jorader7: The Best Man (1964) “Is there anything more indecent than the human smile?”: 4/5 An absolute triumph of dialogue: 5/5 “There’s no ends, only means”: 5/5 Gore Vidal banger: 4/5 The Best Man did not win: 5/5 23/25

welfordwrites: Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all. Gore Vidal

GrocholskiJack: Every supporter of Transgenders and every person who thinks he/she might be transgender should read Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal. It might help your perspectives.

p_s_horne: Last tweet - Chris Hitchens. Winston Churchill. Gore Vidal. Hunter S Thompson. Coleridge. All writer giants that are spinning in their graves wondering what is wrong with us all.

DC_DeWitt: I also re-read Gore Vidal’s essays, Huckleberry Finn (when Huck talks to himself about how he won’t betray Jim and instead will let the cold world do its worst to him - one of the most significant passages in American literature), Lincoln’s speeches, and The Federalist papers.

Eric_Nel: National Review claims to oppose the alt-right. It actually helped create the movement.

stanleyrogouski: Hmm I thought Stephens was shorter. Gore Vidal said he looked like a large not quite life-size doll.

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jcslattery: I don’t really know how I got started doing this, but I’ve been watching old interviews of Gore Vidal at night and they’re a hoot. Here he is in 1992 describing how he wrote an essay about “taking the country back,” and he was shocked to hear…all 3 candidates repeating it

ryujoonwooh: [명언]Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)

clairestbot: As Gore Vidal said, it 'takes a real man to watch terrible Christmas romances'

erikchartercpa: Is this something out of Gore Vidal & Bob Guccione’s “Caligula”? That’s actually a timely movie for the 2023 USA, come to think of it.

IainSim55659177: Gore Vidal - That's why I'm an atheist not an agnostic

ChaseMadar: I’m still amazed at how awful Gore Vidal’s defense of McVeigh (published in Vanity Fair!) was. Just abominable. When GV was good he was great but his worst stuff is a Superfund site

davidkersten: "We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing." — Gore Vidal

Balancement: "Our form of Democracy is bribery, on the highest scale." ~ Gore Vidal

Cherono21: "a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)" ~Gore Vidal

slimydustypink: gona listen2it anyway+proly just end up h8ng gore vidal

VictorOlliver: La Rondinaia, the late Gore Vidal's amazing cliff-face home in Ravello, Italy, is opening up to the public now that it has been updated and restored. I visited Vidal there in the late 1990s.

OutlawsPoetic: “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 Vidal

brijanp: Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. -Gore Vidal

5happypeeps: William F. Buckley, Christopher Hitchens and Gore Vidal were as good at talking as they were at writing, and as a direct result, they have left a big whooshing vacuum in public life. Great interview on why writers are not very agile in conversation.

sock_dem: Weird Al Gore Vidal

rc_wisehack: I'm currently reading Gore Vidal's "Pink Triangle and Yellow Star", and I forgot how relevant, funny, and insightful this essay really is.

PaulProfJono: Now reading: "Palimpsest: A Memoir" by Gore Vidal

henrysnorton3: Style is knowing Who you are, what you want to say, And no giving a damn. Gore Vidal

TereseMcGroarty: Style is knowing Who you are, what you want to say, And no giving a damn. Gore Vidal

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DepartureJay: A writer and a typewriter. 10/ Gore Vidal.

JamesOB38637741: Cultural recommendation: Washington, D.C. a 1967 novel by Gore Vidal.

berningman16: As Gore Vidal said: "We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing".

ryujoonwooh: [명언]Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)

Ewan_C_Forbes: 'Joyce Carol Oates.' -- Gore Vidal when asked what 'The Three Saddest Words in the English Language are.'

VatsMusings: An unfed mind devours itself. - Gore Vidal

Losstiene122T16: That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.,Gore Vidal,World, Bad, May ,

PaulusMcNaulus: Poetic Outlaws · “I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.” ― Gore Vidal

Earthlingz963: That didn't happen. Both parties are corrupt & care only for power. Gore Vidal (a liberal) famously said, both parties serve the same masters (most just don't know it). Kate will always be ok w/looking past the criminality & corruption of democrats bc she votes for them.

matolog38039581: 'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.,Gore Vidal,Writing, Physics, Daydream ,

frynaomifry: i forgot the other day nina heard the name gore vidal and asked if he was gal gadot's father

KouroshKhoylou: ‘Every time a friend succeeds I die a little’ - Gore Vidal

annakirwa205: 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 Vidal,politicians, speeches,

Roaring20sNews: Eddie Rickenbacker: 'The lives lost on the field of action in the world war were absolutely wasted', Rickenbacker disappointed to view chaos of many wars of old world | Mar 18, 1923 Pic: 1927, Rickenbacker and Gene Vidal, Air Commerce Director [father of Gore Vidal].

SvayKen: Gore Vidal accused of delusional naivety by Bob Carr. In fact we spent trillions in Afghanistan and Iraq but Bin Laden was living at a military base in Pakistan. Our great ally was sheltering him. Nothing straightforward in international affairs. Ignore the US is the lesson.

Harsha_Sayings: The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. ~ Gore Vidal 23/n

InteraliaAlan: Was Gore Vidal the first MAGA communist?

OutlawsPoetic: “I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.” ― Gore Vidal

Satyaki_R: 'He changed his religion five times in thirty years and died at a fine old age, honored by all. If there is a moral to his career, it eludes me.' Gore Vidal, Priscus on Ecebolius

mut26105055: In 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 Vidal,Identity, King, Offense ,

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DavidCranmerUn1: founded J.H. Whitney & Company, the oldest venture capital firm in the U.S., with Benno C. Schmidt, Sr.—who coined the term "venture capital"—with J. T. Claiborne as a partner. In the early 1930s, Jock Whitney began an affair with Nina Gore Vidal; simultaneously, his wife had

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ShaunTrain101: Gore Vidal said, "America has one party, and it has two Right Wings..." Malcolm X advised, "Register to vote, but cast a blank ballot"

JoshRaulFrance: Slapstick Horror Movie Idea: Mad scientist gets the bodies of Gore Vidal and Norm Mailer–in the opening scene we see they've been frozen by the people who froze Walt Disney–reanimates them ala Frankenstein and starts a talk show. Cha ching

martinbray3: Mini Doc - Gore Vidal’s History of the National Security State

intercablebot: Enjoy Gore Vidal writing modern fiction in the next instalment in the erudite costume drama, 'The Scholar 5: Fox News'

ryujoonwooh: [명언]Never have children, only grandchildren. (Gore Vidal)

BAKKOOONN: 'myra breckinridge' was in this old "worst movies ever made" book from the 80s which i dug through as a kid. so i rented it at the neighborhood video store one summer when i was staying with my grandma. gore vidal introduced me to several concepts

nateffo: Gonna start discourse by posting things like Gore Vidal’s filmography was clearly the West coast version of John Waters

riprap007: Gore Vidal, 1991: "what you have is a ruling class, which we're never supposed to say exists, but it does, it's very powerful, it's partly money it's partly bright kids who are trained in places like Harvard to run the place, you don't have to call up

SpiesVespers: Fun Fact: According to NYC legend Rudolf Nureyev was a regular at the Everard Baths aka Everhard Baths, a gay bath house. So was Cambridge Five spy Guy Burgess, Gore Vidal, and Truman Capote. I wonder what they talked about.

AlombeE18028563: Prepare yourself for some bad news: Ronald Reagan’s library just burned down. Both books were destroyed. But the real horror: He hadn’t finished coloring either one of them.,Gore Vidal,fun, funny, gore-vidal, humor, political, politics, reagan, ronald-reagan,

TinyMolecules: Others writers whose names are huge, but are perhaps less an entry-point. Writers whose language and literary baggage is perhaps more complex, like all of Elizabeth Hardwick's criticism; the best of Gore Vidal's gossipy and brilliant essays; Hilton Als' work in the New Yorker...

rc_wisehack: "No revolution ever started at the bottom. Spartacus is the rule down there. At the top, its Julius Caesar. It's the disaffected member of the ruling class who cam *sometimes* be useful..." --Gore Vidal

rc_wisehack: "I am not talking about becoming a dictator, I am talking about becoming relevant or interesting. [The member of the elite] has a greater view, and if he has any great sense of honesty, justice, proportion, he will turn the lights on the world that he knows..." --Gore Vidal

rc_wisehack: "History does not repeat itself." --Gore Vidal

Weatherwalks: Nevermind, it turns out it was a bug caused by Gore Vidal Ken or Soul Kenibur or whatever his name is being dead.

rc_wisehack: It's hard to read Gore Vidal sometimes, because his prose inspires me to want to write.

cunninghamjeff: The best opener I've read in a long, long, time. We flew to Los Angeles and shot him (Gore Vidal) in his house in the Hollywood Hills. The living room was basic WASP — lots of framed pictures on table tops. He looked like an old sick bird of prey. He

brunapper: Envy Is The Central Fact Of American Life Gore Vidal (2006). 15 minutes. Worth a watch.

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