In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
GORE VIDALTV news is not very instructive.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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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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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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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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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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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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