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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
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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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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 corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

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