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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.

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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
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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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
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
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
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
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
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

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