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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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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World

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