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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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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature

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