Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
GORE VIDALThe only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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