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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

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From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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 not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
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
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
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism

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