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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
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
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself

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