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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
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
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
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
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
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight

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