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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing

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