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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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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