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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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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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Elimination Management Media Object Opinion World
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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
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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever

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