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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.

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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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 never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public

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