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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex

After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

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