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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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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
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
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top

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