In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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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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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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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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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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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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