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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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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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I am only at home in the present.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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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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