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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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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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown

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