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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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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
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
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing

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