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In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.

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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World

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