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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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