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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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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
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
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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