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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
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
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present

I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.

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