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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
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
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 preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

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