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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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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
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
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

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