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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.

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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
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing

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