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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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We’re not a democracy.
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Love is not my bag.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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