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

Gore Vidal

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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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

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