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

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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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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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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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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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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Reminder Theatre Well
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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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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Operation Sphere
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Order Police Responsibility
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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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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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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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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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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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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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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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.

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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

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