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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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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
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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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