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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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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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
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
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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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.

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