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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
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
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter

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