In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
From Gore Vidal
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?'
Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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