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Envy is the central fact of American life.

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The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World

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