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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
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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God Graduation Known Yourself
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People

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