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

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading

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