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

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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
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
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
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World

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