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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 remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading 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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time

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