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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.

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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
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
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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
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

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