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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Beautiful Children Extent Fellow
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.

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Admire Ahead Entire Favorites
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Any Communism Largely Like
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.

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Africa Been Going Has Been
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

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Around Bass Big Definitely
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.

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Age Common Sense Wisdom
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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.

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Anymore Credit Even Expectations
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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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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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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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Also, I've already won all the awards.

Also Already Awards Won
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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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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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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 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 hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Common Hate Hates Likes
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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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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Institution Live Marriage Want
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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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You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Being Between Bored Daydreaming
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Be Happy Fear Happy Haunting
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I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

Always Last Look Lost
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And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.
Adam Apple Eating Got
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Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
Bonus Chemical Dogs Eat
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Answer Clear Complex Every
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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Area Children Drop Go
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Chief Fact Lies Lives
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No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Agents Employed Ever Far
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Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Been Chest Ever Get
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Among Cannibals Constituents Dinner
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Baptism Best Better Campaign
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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

Build Dance Draw Else
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

Articles By The Time Candidates Day
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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

Any Best Honestly Matter
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