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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

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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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
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
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution

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