TV news is not very instructive.
GORE VIDALThere is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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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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The unfed mind devours itself.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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