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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right

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