“The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.”

— Gore Vidal

"Love Love Love," Partisan Review (Spring 1959)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972)

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American writer 1925–2012

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