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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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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life

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