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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.

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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word

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