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

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
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
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing

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