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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
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 invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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