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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

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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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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
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
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
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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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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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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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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