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The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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

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