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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
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
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
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
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity

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