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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
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
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
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
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
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 can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World

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