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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.

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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society

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