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

Gore Vidal

Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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 am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
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
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong

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