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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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Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
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
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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