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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
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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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
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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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Choice Democracy Feeling Perspective Politics
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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The United States is a madhouse.
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