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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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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
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
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television

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