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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
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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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
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

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