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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
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
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
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
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice

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