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.
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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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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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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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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I hate nobody.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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I can understand companionship.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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