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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.

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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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Economy Himself President Understand Work
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
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
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President 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
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
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
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing

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