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"That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president."
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"Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support."
"Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort."
"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."
"If you are stupid enough not to know the difference between the devil and the angel, you quickly find the devil! This is what happens to most people in democracies just after elections!"
"On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost but politicians on TV! They are the real goblins and specters!"
"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."
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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
"One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves."
"What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions."
"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."
"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."
"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
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