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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

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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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
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

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