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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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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
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
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
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence

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