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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.

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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
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
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
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
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
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
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.

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