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

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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
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
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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
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
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing

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

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