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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Afraid Audience Comedian God
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Cynics Nine Out Right
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Hip-hop lasted and survived all these years that you have to give it credit. Even though it's not up to people's expectations anymore, its still here, and that's says a lot.

Nas
Anymore Credit Even Expectations
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Criticism Made Plausible Prejudice
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Above Complex Else Emotion
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Art Cage Circus Democracy
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Else Fool No One Prerogative
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

After Depart Ever Eye
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We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
Bearable Could Everything Just
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

About Basic Bore Endless
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Another Delusion Differs Love
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

About Afterwards Average Before
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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Because Comics Easy Election
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

About Bachelors Know Married
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Also, I've already won all the awards.

Also Already Awards Won
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
Fool He Know Man
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As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

As Far As Becoming Concerned Entire
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Another Better Better Time Die
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Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

Beauty Because Concentrating Effort
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Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

Always Awards Battle Between
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Drink Genuinely Happy He
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I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Am Does Flaws Get
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
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I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

About Maybe Started Writing
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I think of myself as a very lazy author.
Author I Think Lazy Myself
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Avoid Catholic Chemistry Forbidden
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Also Better Cabbage Idealist
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I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Began Comedy Did Feel
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I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.
Always Anyone Anything Publish
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Begin Black Every Flag
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.

Because Book Create Different
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Imagination Intelligence Love Love Is
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I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

Fairly Book Undisciplined Writer
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Common Hate Hates Likes
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Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Pessimism Luxury Jew Allow
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Age Brings Distrust Doctrine
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Been Book Contract First
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Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Comparison Disease Fatal First
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
Further Here Human Human Knowledge
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Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Because Fans Get Nice
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Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.
Better Much Rock Roll
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
Against Course Government Liberty
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Institution Live Marriage Want
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So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Amendment Amendment Rights Book Comic
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It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

Cause Determined Few Leaders
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The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Amendment Countries Current First
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

Children Devil Failure God
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The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Always Before Brighter Just
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Belief Defined Faith Illogical
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