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The United States is a madhouse.

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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
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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Invention President Suspend War
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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Myself Reading Truth
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money

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