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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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I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in…
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Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
— Edward Albee
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We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.
— Goswami Kriyananda
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If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
— Zig Ziglar
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What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay?…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or…
— Jessica Alba
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It always bothers me to see people writing RIP when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To…
— Lou Reed
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
— V. S. Pritchett
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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I try to ONLY ridicule people who's efforts are sincere. Very little trouble has been caused in the world by insincere efforts.…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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People have called me fake, but personally, I don't think I'm fake because I'm so insincere.
— Zach Braff
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