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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Dick Cavett

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
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Comedy Need Resent Writing Yourself
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Comedy Street Television
I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.
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Block Easy Hard Myself Reason Writing
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.
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Promotion See Subtle
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
I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.
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Believe Confession Live Planet Reading Reminder Space
Great humorists are great insulters.
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Great Humor Insult
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
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
Depression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
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Category Depression Different Small True
I’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
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Joke Myself Short Show Subject
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
I don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
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Feeling Himself Man Old Wrong Young

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