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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.

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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading

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