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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
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 four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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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Filling Himself Hope Place
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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

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