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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
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 remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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
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
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
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading

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