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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter

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