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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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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious

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