It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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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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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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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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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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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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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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I’m always an optimist!
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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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