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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
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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God Graduation Known Yourself
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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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
We’re not a democracy.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
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
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.

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