It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
GORE VIDALSex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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