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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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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
I could be a lot happier. I could be the senator from Aerospace taking bribes, and be quite happy.
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Bribe Happiness Myself Quite
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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Blind Eyes Ignore
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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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Baseball Play Slow Sports
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
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
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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