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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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The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
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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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing

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