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" Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. "

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" Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off. "

" I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936. "

" Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes. "

" That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president. "

" At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice. "

" Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. "

" 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. "

" It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally. "

" To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities. "

" It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill. "

" I never said I was gay, because I don't think anyone is. "

" Everything's wrong on Wikipedia. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic. "

" One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves. "

" There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier. "

" When I say 'president,' I still mean Roosevelt - wisely, I think. "

" I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones. "

" All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world. "

" Fortunately, our audiences are used to a kind of boredom in the theatre, and if the writer is skillful, he will flatter them into thinking: 'Why, that's us up there, and aren't we - for all our little foibles - pretty nice guys and gals?' "

" We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. "

" Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East. "

" 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. "

" You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. "

" Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. "

" Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves. "

" I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch. "

" The Pentagon talks about our power to 'overkill' Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once. "