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“ I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track. ”

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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

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History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

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Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

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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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