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I can understand companionship.

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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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking 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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking

I can understand companionship.

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