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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle 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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
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
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand

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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