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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading

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