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

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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
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
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
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
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
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
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place

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

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