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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself

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