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I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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Elimination Income Tax
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I’m a realist.
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Journalism Reality World
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
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
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
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
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
There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Identity Myself
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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Dream Myself Writing
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

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