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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.

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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing

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