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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

Gore Vidal

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
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
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion

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