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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax

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