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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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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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Audience Drink Writing
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
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
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
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
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
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out… It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion.
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Colony Mass Rebel War
Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Business Country Faith Fiction Lost Writing
That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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Bank Loyalty President
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
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God Graduation Known Yourself

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

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