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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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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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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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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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