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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

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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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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
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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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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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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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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