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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.

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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
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
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
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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