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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
— Robert Breault
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My granddad used to say, If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma.
— Gary Mule Deer
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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my dad, my…
— George Eads
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My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.
— Neon Hitch
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Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to…
— Twiggy
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My granddad wanted to become a sign painter and designer, but was stopped; my dad would have had a real talent for…
— Stefan Sagmeister
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
— Sam Brownback
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My friend's granddad died of prostate cancer and it had a profound effect on me. So when I was presented with the…
— Tristan Wilds
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My name is Zach Galifianakis and I hope I'm pronouncing that right. I'm named after my granddad, my middle name. My name…
— Zach Galifianakis
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My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she…
— Alice Cooper
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'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
— Wiz Khalifa
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I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.
— Terry Pratchett
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