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

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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing

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