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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People

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