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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

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In essence, Clinton’s Anti-Terrorism Act would set up a national police force, over the long-dead bodies of the founders.
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Act Finding Force National Police
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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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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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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Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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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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I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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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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