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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember

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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