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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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 never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
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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