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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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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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
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
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale

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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