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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.

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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
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
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
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
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

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