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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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Americans have no idea of the extent of their government’s mischief… the number of military strikes we have made unprovoked, against other countries, since 1947 is more than 250.
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Age Country Government Ideas Mischief Provoke Strike
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
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
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
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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
Every country should have at least one King Farouk.
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Country Oneself
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
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
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time

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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