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.
GORE VIDALJews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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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 am only at home in the present.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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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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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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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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