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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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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity

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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