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Gore Vidal

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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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
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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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
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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Death Department Nation State
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing

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