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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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’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
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World

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