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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
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Election Illumination Language Liberal Society Vote
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Bird Man Stand Time
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Crime Disturb Order Peace Police Responsibility
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar – and not dissimilar – sphere of operations.
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Adventure Movie Myself Novel Operation Play Sphere Temporary
Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, ‘Well, so-and-so will like this,’ which you do when you’re younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
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Contemporary Realize Young Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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