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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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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth

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