Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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