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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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 United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
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

All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

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