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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.

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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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
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
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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
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
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

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.

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The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.

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