I am not, at heart, a playwright.
GORE VIDALIn the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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TV news is not very instructive.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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