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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.

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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight

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