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Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
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
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice

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