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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim

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