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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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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
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
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
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

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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