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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
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
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking

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