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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.

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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
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

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