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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
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
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time

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