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Q: What was it about Howard Auster that made your relationship last more than 50 years?
Gore Vidal: No sex. But nobody believes that. This is America where everybody must have a full sex life all day long. Fifty percent of heterosexual marriages end in divorce. Where does that come from? Exclusivity. “You’re mine, you’re mine. You swore, Agnes, when I married you, that you’d be true to me.” Come off of it. This is a bunch of BS.
Q: You mentioned in the book (Point to Point Navigation) that you and Howard had completely separate sexual lives. Could there be a balance between exclusivity and playing the field?
GV: I suppose that somebody sixteen or seventeen might conceive that, yeah. Reality does not support it.
-- Gay & Lesbian Review
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