I am not, at heart, a playwright.
GORE VIDALSome writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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He who is last had best laugh.
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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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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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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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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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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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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Nearly 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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