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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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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
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
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit

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