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I am not, at heart, a playwright.

Gore Vidal

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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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
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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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

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