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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.

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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television

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