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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

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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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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 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
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War

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