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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
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
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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
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
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World

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