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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.

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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
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
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
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
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
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Artist Himself Magic Mystery Public View
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Greatness Reading Writing Yourself
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System

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