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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present

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