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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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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
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

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