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

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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
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing

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