Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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I am only at home in the present.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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