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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
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.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
To invent a war means that you’ve become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
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Invention President Suspend War
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
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Poem Police
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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Evidence Figure Reading Speech
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place

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