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.
GORE VIDALI’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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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 never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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I hate nobody.
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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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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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