American - Novelist | May 25, 1932 - December 30, 2003
Life is much more available in New York - there are a dozen movie theaters within walking distance. Living in California is easier, but you get sedentary.
John Gregory Dunne
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I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.
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I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.
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I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
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I'm not a bad mimic, and I can pick up speech cadences that I would not pick up if I didn't hit the road.
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I resist and resent the idea of California as a metaphor. It's something thrust upon us, usually by people in the East.
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I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
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There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobile industry, puts new bodies on old chassis.
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The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
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Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
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Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.
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'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.
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