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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
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
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
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
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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