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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.

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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
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
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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Change Reality Time Torture Victim

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