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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
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
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner

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