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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time

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