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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

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I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
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
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
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
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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
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

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