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unearths some literary gems.
From View from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal:
***"[Anthony Powell] had prepared two elaborate numbers for me…and splendid they were. He walks like Groucho Marx."***INTERVIEWER: Why do you prefer movies to the theater?VIDAL: I’m embarrassed by live actors. They’re always having a much better time than I am.***The American vice is explaining, I recently explained in the New York Review of Books.***Eventually, the novel will simply be an academic exercise, written by academics to be used in classrooms in order to test the ingenuity of students. A combination of Rorschach test and anagram.***
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