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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.

Gore Vidal

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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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
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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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing

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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