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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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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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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself

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