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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
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
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny

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