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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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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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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

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