Gore Vidal Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• 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

  Sarcastic, Book, Writing

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Nov 18, 2010

• You will be favourable to Burr, and so must fail because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this is the greatest country on earth, Washington the greatest man that ever lived, Burr the wickedest, and evidence to the contrary is not admissible. That means no inconvenient facts, no new information. If you really want the reader's attention, you must flatter him. Make his prejudices your own. Tell him things he already knows. He will love your soundness.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Love You, Mean

• In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

  Gore Vidal

  Matter, Contradiction, Evidence

  Gore Vidal (1991). “A view from the diners club: essays 1987-1991”

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