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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
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
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
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
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax

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