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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
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
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
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
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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