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

Gore Vidal

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
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself

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