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In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set...
KRISTIN GORE
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts ...
ARIEL GORE
Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust a...
GORE VIDAL
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for m...
GORE VIDAL
I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
GORE VIDAL
I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h...
ARIEL GORE
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th...
GORE VIDAL
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
GORE VIDAL
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to ill...
GORE VIDAL
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Repu...
GORE VIDAL
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not al...
GORE VIDAL
By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Re...
GORE VIDAL
It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the t...
GORE VIDAL
Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunatel...
MARTIN GORE
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased beha...
GORE VIDAL
Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete w...
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As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to ...
LESLEY GORE
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillf...
GORE VIDAL
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But the...
GORE VIDAL