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

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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing

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