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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
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
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
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
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself

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