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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.

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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore

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