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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
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 am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
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
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

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