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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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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History

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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