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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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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

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