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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex

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