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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

Gore Vidal

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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World

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