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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth

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