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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.

Gore Vidal

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing

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