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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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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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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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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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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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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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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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