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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
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing

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