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I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

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What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.
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Credible Exception Ignorance Possible Society
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
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
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend

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