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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
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
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
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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 United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
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
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society

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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