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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself

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