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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.

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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
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
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature

What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.

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