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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
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
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember

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