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

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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
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
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War

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