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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay

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