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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
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
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
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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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
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
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

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