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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.

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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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God Graduation Known Yourself
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
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
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
It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham. He was always so entirely there.
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Difficult Himself Honesty Pretend
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic – with many a wink – in the people’s name.
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Depression Government Manager Name People Public Rich War
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
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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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
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
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore

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