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Quotation by Gore Vidal
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Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 (1987)"At Home in Washington, D.C." Armageddon? Essays 1983-1987 (1987)attributed Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989)"Cue the Green God, Ted" A View from the Diner's Club (1991)French Letters: Theories of the New Novel Encounter (London, Dec. 1967)
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one—and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
Gore Vidal (b. 1925), U.S. novelist, critic. Times Herald (Dallas, June 18, 1978).
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