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Normal is the average of deviance.

Normal Average
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I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.

Approach Because Choose Comic
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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.

Commend Good Good Taste Like
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Life is too short to be miserable

Life Life Is Too Short Miserable Short
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Book Excuses Find Like
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There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.

Creative Difficult Embrace Few
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I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Cat Irresponsible Life Many
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local, state and federal taxes. If nothing else, this should convince you that animals are smarter than people.

Animal Animals Conceive Convince
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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Consider Did Middle Myself
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Best Category Earned Emmy
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I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Best Come General Give
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There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Ancient Been Day Grade
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I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

Any Assess Could Ever
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.

Believe Cats Cemetery Dogs
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All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.

About Across Animal Civilizations
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Political elections are not life and death.

Death Elections Life Life And Death
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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?

Animals Control Events Glorious
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Man World Search Needs
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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The difficulty in life is the choice.

Difficulty In life Choice
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality Destroy Dream
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

A man Letters Objects Sharpens
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

Chocolate Eat Fight Fighting
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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
Also Certain Funny Jews
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

Humiliating Involve Man Most
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Emerged Eventually Kept Me
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Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.

Anyone Bald Confident Diamond
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Character Doing First Gonna
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
Back Crazy Drives Even
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Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
Every Just Precarious Relationship
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I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War.

Army Because Bush End
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

About Anyone Emotional Even
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
Audience Energy Feed Just
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
After Just Laughs Really
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Become Comedy Doing Had
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Future Good Had Homeless
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I'm a walking, talking enigma.

Enigma A Talking Walking
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