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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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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing

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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