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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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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
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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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
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
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
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
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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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
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
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President

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