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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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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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While campaigning, I got to know many high-school teachers, and let me say that the good ones are the unsung heroes of our society, and the bad ones are the gravediggers.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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
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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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Love is not my bag.
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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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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