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To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.

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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
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
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
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
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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