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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.

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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
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’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence

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