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GORE VIDALTemperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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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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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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I’m always an optimist!
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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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