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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.

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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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