Gore Vidal Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Media, Work Out

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

• We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

  Gore Vidal

  Strong, Eye, Squinting

  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

• People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.esquire.com

• A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Men, Would Be

  GORE VIDAL (1964). “JULIAN”

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