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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax

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