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I am not, at heart, a playwright.

Gore Vidal

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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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
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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Filling Himself Hope Place
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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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
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.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale

I am not, at heart, a playwright.

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