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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
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 behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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

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