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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
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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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
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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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself

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