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I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.

Dick Cavett

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
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Disturb Label Lose Myself Problem Vulnerable
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
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
The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
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Force Police Sex
It’s no fun being a specimen.
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Fun One Liner Specimen
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.
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Easy Hobby Interest 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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Beyond Criticism Death Declare Escape Reproach
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
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Intellectual Label Myself Understand
William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Amazing Capacity Greatness Man
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
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Alphabet Book Guest Intellectual Reading
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
It’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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Information News Youth
Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?
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Age Photograph Yourself
I did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
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Advantage Laughter Myself Night Stand Work

I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.

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