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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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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
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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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing

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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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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