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I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.

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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
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
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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World

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