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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.

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The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
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
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
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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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play

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