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

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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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

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