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

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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
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
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
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
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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
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
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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