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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
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

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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