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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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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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Book Fact Kind Loose Opinion Popular Question Review Treat
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
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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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Conspiracy Myself Theory
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing

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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