In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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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 writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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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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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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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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There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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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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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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I’m always an optimist!
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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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