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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.

Gore Vidal

I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present

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