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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

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I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
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
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
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
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
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
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

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