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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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
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
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
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
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
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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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression

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