Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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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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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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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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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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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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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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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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