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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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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun

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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