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.
GORE VIDALThe greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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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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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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Love is not my bag.
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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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We’re not a democracy.
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