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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present

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