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.
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.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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I am only at home in the present.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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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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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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I hate nobody.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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