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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.

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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary

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