I hate nobody.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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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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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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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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