Anais Nin gave me my most original, or so I thought, creation.
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Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.
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That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.
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You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.
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You think of the Republican Party as a party, like the British Conservative Party, well it isn't! I don't say that the British Conservative Party is much better, I'm only saying the Republican Party is a mindset. They love war! They love money! They're out to hang on through all the connections that they have, through their various operatives.
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Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around.
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We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered bill of rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Apparently, "conspiracy stuff" is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.
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As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
We do not, of course, write literary criticism at all now. Academe has won the battle in which Wilson fought so fiercely on the other side. Ambitious English teachers now invent systems that have nothing to do with literature or life but everything to do with those games that must be played in order for them to rise in the academic bureaucracy. Their works are empty indeed. But then, their works are not meant to be full. They are to be taught, not read. The long dialogue has broken down. Fortunately, as Flaubert pointed out, the worst thing about the present is the future. One day there will be no. But I have been asked not to give the game away. Meanwhile, I shall drop a single hint: Only construct!
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