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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
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
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
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
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

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