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| That is New York. I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine. |
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| That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. |
| Books; Writers |
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| That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. |
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| The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. |
| America and Americans |
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| The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. |
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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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| 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. |
| Money; Pleasure |
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| The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death |
| Death and dying; Religion; Society |
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| The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare. |
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| The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. |
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| The ownership of this country has usually been pretty shrewd. They knew what they wanted. They don't want to pay taxes, certainly. They don't want people blowing them up in the night like 9/11. And if there ever was great cause for impeachment it would be over 9/11. Never been a case of negligence like that. |
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| The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. |
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| There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. |
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| There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. |
| Problems |
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| 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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| There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem. |
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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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| These people [Bush Administration] are for the most part rip-off artists. Notice that they're all gas and oil men from Cheney, to the two Bushes; I think Rumsfeld also. |
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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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