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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
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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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
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
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World

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