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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Dick Cavett

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
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Chocolate Hands Ideas Myself Practice Shock Worst
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.
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Anxiety Born Ego Gift Strong Writing
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
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Associate Entertainment Myself Television
By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.
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Father Myself Phone Sound Time
In relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
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Relative Remember Thinking Youth
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
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
I don’t think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience’s reaction is from another.
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Audience Different Myself Reaction Surprise Thinking
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
I have a long list of things that make me mad.
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Angry List Mad Myself
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

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Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

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