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

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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
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
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

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