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If somebody says, I love

If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? I love you, too.
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What war has always been

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
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It was a thunderingly beautiful

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
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We are what we imagine

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.
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We are all what we

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
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Those who believe in telekinetics,

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
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I was taught in the

I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.
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We are what we pretend

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Well, the telling of jokes

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
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There is a tragic flaw

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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