I am not, at heart, a playwright.
GORE VIDALNever have children, only grandchildren.
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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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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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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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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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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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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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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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