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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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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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
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
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
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

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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