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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Gore Vidal

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
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
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
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

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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