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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

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In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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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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Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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We’re not a democracy.
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It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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