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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.

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Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
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
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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

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