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

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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
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
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President

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