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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
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Hope Myself People Reading Vote
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
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
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing

It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.

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