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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.

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I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
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 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
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
The Turner Diaries’ is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.
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Race Teacher Writing
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I don’t even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.
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Law Myself Potential Reading Review View
If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
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Election Force Yourself
The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing
Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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Age One Liner Place Sex
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

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