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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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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
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

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