I am not, at heart, a playwright.
GORE VIDALSome 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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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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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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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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