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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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Goodness Known Ourselves Society
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
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
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking

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