I am not, at heart, a playwright.
GORE VIDALI hate nobody.
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I can understand companionship.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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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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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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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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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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