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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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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.
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Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
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