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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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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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
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
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
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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Black Communist Hate Result World
I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Childhood Home Life Myself Politician Raise
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
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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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
American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Academics Fall Hands History
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
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
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

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