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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
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
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight

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