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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 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 am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory

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