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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don't cross.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't pretend to be witty because wit is dry, subtle, lacerating, cynical, elitist, and risque - all impossible to fake. Humor, on the other hand, is broad, soothing, positive, inclusive, and smutty - to make sure everybody gets it. Pretending to be humorous is easy, and a great many people are doing it.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief letters - notes, really - hand-written and snail-mailed at first, e-mailed later.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,' I couldn't take my eyes off Judith Anderson as Big Mama.
- Even Worse
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- Nov 07, 2020
They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in a Republic of Merit in which water is allowed to find its own level, where voters, like drivers, are tested before being turned loose.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimists don't mind if you eavesdrop on them. They welcome it, in fact, because it helps them spread their fiendish gospel.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's face it: 'Threatening' people are the only interesting people around. The unthreatening are, by and large, competent mediocrities who take lemming-like aim at careers in television.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
In baseball, you can't tell the players without a scorecard, but in political commentary, you need a metaphor.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into reverse by celebrity worship to give us a plethora of ancient deities to follow.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy elevates by turning ordinary people into extraordinary ordinary people called celebrities.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.
- Stars
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II generals it produced, my junior-high class of 1950 is the class a ton of bricks fell on from Hollywood's gut-wrenching portrayals of mother-love in '40s-era movies.
- Nov 07, 2020