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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 was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
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
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
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself

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