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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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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself

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