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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World

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