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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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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The United States is a madhouse.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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I am only at home in the present.
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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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