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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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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
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
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
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
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
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
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People

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