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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever

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