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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
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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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
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
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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

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