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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
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
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police

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