I’m always an optimist!
GORE VIDALI can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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He who is last had best laugh.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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I am only at home in the present.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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