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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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I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
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 was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory

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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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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