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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
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
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
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
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
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 know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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