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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
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
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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