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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself

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