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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.

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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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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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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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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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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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