American - Novelist | October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
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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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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
StupidEnoughNowWantRightWho
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.
PeoplePersonOnlyMostThingActs
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America's hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.
GoodBelieveAmericanWorthDown
The unfed mind devours itself.
MindItself
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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It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
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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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