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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.

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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
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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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
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
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
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
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
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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