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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate October 3, 1925

Zodiac Libra

Location West Point, New York

Country United States

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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

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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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You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.

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Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

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If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins to understand why men and women don't get on very well within marriage, or indeed in any exclusive sort of long-range sexual relationship. He is designed to make as many babies as possible with as many different women as he can get his hands on, while she is designed to take time off from her busy schedule as astronaut or role model to lay an egg and bring up the result. Male and female are on different sexual tracks, and that cannot be changed by the Book or any book. Since all our natural instincts are carefully perverted from birth, it is no wonder that we tend to be, if not all of us serial killers, killers of our own true nature.

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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

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