Vidal De & Vidal Dawn

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Fifteen months ago tomorrow, we lost an elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters.


Gore Vidal
(1915-2012)
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VIDAL DE = Quotes on Democracy

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice like, Painkiller X and Painkiller Y.
But they're both just aspirin.

The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country—and we haven't seen them since.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and 50% don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

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.
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VIDAL DAWN = Quotes about his "spiritual mother," Dawn Powell

For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult
and becoming a major religion.

Powell was that unthinkable monster, a witty woman who felt no obligation
to make a single, much less a final, down payment on Love or The Family.


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Footnotes
The Lewis Carroll School of Logic is flatered by having Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
punned into Gore Vidal & Dawn Powell.

The next Dawn Powell page is here.
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