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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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

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