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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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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President

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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