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

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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
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
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret

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