I am not, at heart, a playwright.

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I am not, at heart, a playwright.

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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.

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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.

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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Newspaper Oneself
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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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
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.

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World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Loose Popular Review
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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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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Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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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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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

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The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Race
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.

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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.

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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Optimistic President
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.

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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Politician Raise
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.

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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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