I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
GORE VIDALPrimarily, 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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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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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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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Love is not my bag.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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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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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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