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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
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
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
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time

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