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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
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
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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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
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
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
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
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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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
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.

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