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.
GORE VIDALThe Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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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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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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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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I can understand companionship.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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