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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.

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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
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
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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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
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence

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