The media can’t get anything straight.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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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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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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