One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
GORE VIDALPrimarily, 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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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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