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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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
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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
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
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking

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