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Gore Vidal

"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."

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Donna Grant

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion."

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Donna Grant

"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising."

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Donna Grant

"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."

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Donna Grant

"The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising."

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Donna Grant

"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."

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Donna Grant

"We should remember the campaign advertising will be only a smaller portion of the President's total exposure."

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Donna Grant

"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."

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Donna Grant

"That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in."

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Donna Grant

"Many manufacturers secretly question whether advertising really sells their product, but are vaguely afraid that their competitors might steal a march on them if they stopped."

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Donna Grant

"Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares."

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Gore Vidal
"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."

Politics

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Gore Vidal
"We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself."

Life

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Gore Vidal
"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

Age

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Gore Vidal
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."

Books

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Gore Vidal
"The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes."

Money

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Gore Vidal
"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."

Birds

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Gore Vidal
"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."

Media

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Gore Vidal
"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale."

Politics

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Gore Vidal
"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

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Gore Vidal
"Never have children, only grandchildren."

Family

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