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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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
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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
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
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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Bird Man Stand Time
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports

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