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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
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
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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 first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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 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 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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence

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