In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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I hate nobody.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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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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By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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