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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading 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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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
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
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape 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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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