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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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 the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See

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