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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
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing

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