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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.

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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
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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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice

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