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

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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
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
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner

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

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