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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
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
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
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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target

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