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Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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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
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
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
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
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
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
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
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
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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Chaos Moments Opinion Prejudice Public
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
I’ve yet to read a memoir by anyone I’ve known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth.
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Myself Reading Truth
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

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