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This is my favorite introduction to GV media to share with people. It's a pleasure to watch television from 1971. GV is classy and proudly feminist. Norman Mailer is a jackass.

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from my archive, portrait of Gore Vidal #gorevidal #author #writer (hier: Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWn2EpvMk7N/?utm_medium=tumblr

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“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.” #GoreVidal #quote #riseandshine #vote #wordstoliveby #aspire2inspire https://www.instagram.com/p/CErJO3_jEIp/?igshid=16qn396buaz38

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“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequality of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.” #GoreVidal #quote #riseandshine #wordstoliveby #aspire2inspire https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGXko0DRw9/?igshid=jn0ln1ip8gnc

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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“No man with that awful wife and those ugly children could be anything but normal.”

Henry Fonda in The Best Man

#TheBestMan #FranklinJSchaffner #GoreVidal #HenryFonda

#moviequotes

#MovieQuoteOfTheDay

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This quick little BBC interview from 1998 is like, a total mind fuck.

I need to learn who Alan Clarke is but he’s a British guy and he’s in this interview talking about “barbarians” in countries like “Persia” making “weapons of mass destruction”

He’s like, why are we not invading and handling Saddam Hussein?!

GV is says it all. He covers:

We never should’ve gotten into the Civil War, WWI, WW2

We cannot and should not be “world police” prophetically taking the oppositional stance to an oncoming war’s rhetoric that he anticipates specifically

That the Clinton Sex Scandal was pay back for trying to do universal health care (interesting! Never heard this but GV is always right)

That the American empire is collapsing even as people won’t acknowledge it’s existence

He anticipates massive currency instability

And again the whole thing is he’s being interviewed after releasing The Smithsonian Institution which is about time traveling to try and prevent the USA getting in WW2 which is GV’s obsession because of his beloved Jimmy Trimble was killed in the Pacific.

He’s sitting there in 1998 getting interviewed alongside a man who’s spewing propaganda that supports the oncoming invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran, and he’s arguing for peace.

He’s arguing for peace in the 1860s, and against wars started last week, a decade after his death.

He says with heaving sadness he figures humans must be by nature territorial and warring, that it’s unintelligible (age of chaos) that it’s all going to burn and rise again because the way we are only leads to destruction, and he’s sitting here getting interviewed about his "What if I Could Go Back in Time and Stop WW2?" fantasy book next to a guy doing complex war propaganda and he’s still trying to argue for peace now and in the future.

GV was anguished.

He was so good.

I seriously cry almost every time I listen to him or read him in any form, fiction, essay, interview.

He’s a lost prophet.

I love him so much.

I’ll come back and edit and add quotes and pics I guess.

Okay wow yeah, Alan Clarke

Here's the basics

GV in 1998

I just noticed this Wikipedia page was for "Alan Clark" but the BBC episode says "Alan Clarke" and so does the BBC episode. So I made sure the Wikipedia page was for the author of the book The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State 1922-1997 and it is.

Clark v Clarke

Why's that happened?

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Just read about this man 😞

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Political Analysis from Frank Zappa and Gore Vidal

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"Suddenly, last Summer" (1958) with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, screenplay by Gore Vidal after the play from Tennessee Williams, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz 

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Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012.

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Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012.

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Gore Vidal said trans rights.

Best of Enemies at the Young Vic (2021-2022)

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“But then the pedestrian is not favored hereabouts. In fact, the police are quick to stop and question anyone found on foot in a residential district since it is a part of California folklore that only the queer or criminal walk; the good drive cars that fill the air with the foul odor of burning fossils, and so day by day our lungs fill up with the stuff of great ferns and dinosaurs who thus revenge themselves upon their successors, causing us to wither and die prematurely.”

— Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge

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“A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adjective is often applied to those “liberals” who prefer to improve the lives of others rather than exploit them. Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the hightest altruism. But then to reverse, periodically, the meanings of words is a very small price to pay for our vast freedom not only to conform but to consume.”

— Gore Vidal, Point to Point Navigation

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“When the eyes are shut, the true world begins.” — Gore Vidal, The City and the Pillar

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Gore Vidal at his Edgewater home in Barrytown, NY