Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
GORE VIDALOn September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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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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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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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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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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