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Dick Cavett

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer’s life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.
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Bad Life Magazine Time Wife
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
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Assurance Greatness History Subject Union
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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Himself Person Rare
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it’s painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it’s extremely painful.
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Brilliant Comedy Foot Myself Pain Time
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.
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Form Law Online Weapon Yourself
Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
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Best Column Consider Home Myself Suspect
The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
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Authority Depression Feeling Horrible
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
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Brain Heart Life Music Straight
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
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Class Fresh Olympic Several Yourself
A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.
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Conversation Memorable Myself Order Sentence
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
I love my own coincidences and love to hear other peoples’ stories.
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Love Myself People Story
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
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Depression Ghost Misery Rare
Every time someone says, ‘You know, we really ought to get together,’ if I were really honest, I would ask ‘Why?’
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Honesty Myself Time Togetherness

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