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After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

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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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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
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
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
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

After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

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