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.
DICK CAVETTCensorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
More Dick Cavett Quotes
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If your parents never had children, chances are neither will you.
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William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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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.
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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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I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.
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I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.
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Home schooling as an idea is on a par with home dentistry.
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I have never been converted to or even had much interest in spiritualism, occultism, Swedenborgianism or any particular religion. And I never, except occasionally for a laugh, visit the quacks who call themselves psychics.
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To call New York’s traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
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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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I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: ‘What’s your sign?’ Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
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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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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
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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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