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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 told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
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
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
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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Election Force Yourself
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
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
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner

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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