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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
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
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism

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