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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.

Gore Vidal

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
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
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
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
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
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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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

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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