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.
GORE VIDALNearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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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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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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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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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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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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We’re not a democracy.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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