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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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On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
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
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
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
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success

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