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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
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
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite

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