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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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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
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
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy 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 media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
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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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work

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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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