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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.

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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.

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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.

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