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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

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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
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
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
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Different Enemy Oneself Reality
It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Delicate Friendship President
All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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Missing Myself World
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
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Novel Problem Shape Writing

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