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Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.
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The worse we treat people in this country, the more delicately we talk about them.
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In modern American style, his job, not his past, defined him.
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The best comedy is always heartless, an alternative to rational emotion.
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Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.
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As enviable and unreachable as a face in a train window.
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Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.
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A deadly streak of passivity of a kind that sometimes goes with perfectionism.
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The bad debater never knows that one explanation is better than five.
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Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.
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