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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.

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Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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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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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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