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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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Feeling Life Man Yourself
Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Agreement Father Fellow Himself Raise Secret
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
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
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember

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