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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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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World

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