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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you…
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A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does…
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I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre,…
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Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'.
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My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off…
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The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
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I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would…
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I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was…
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In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look…
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric:…
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