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.
GORE VIDALBoth Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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