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

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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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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Death Department Nation State
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
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking

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