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Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

Dick Cavett

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
Nobody is going to try to confiscate guns, although some Web sites know better: President Obama, they are certain, wants to.
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Site Try Weapon Wish
The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
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Benefit Father Greatness Life Myself
To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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Holiday Night Time Traffic
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
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
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
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College Learning Myself Realization
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday
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
Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.
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Comic Court Early Known Rank Rough Survive
I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn’t include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
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Comic Myself See Show Stand
It’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
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Easy Identify Time Voice Yourself
Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.
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Better Image Listening Medium Mindset Television Yourself
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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Age Average Live Thinking
I always wanted to live in a haunted house.
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Haunt Home Live Myself

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

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