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    The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

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    A Lovers a liar, to himself he lies. The truthful are loveless, like oysters their eyes

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    I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination.

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    The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

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    During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

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