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Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
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
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
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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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself

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