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Does one ever read a politician’s books?

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink 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 never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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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Democracy Party Politics Republic
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
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
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote

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