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Never have children, only grandchildren.

Gore Vidal

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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War 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
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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

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