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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
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
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading

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