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"I read that time passes through
people, though people believe

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they are passing through time.

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Those who are melancholy
write from memory but those

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who are happy, imagination.

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All surrealists are happy.

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An MRI can detect if
you are madly in love

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and freshly rejected,
the blood nourishing

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the obsessive-compulsive brain.

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An MRI can detect if
you're a surrealist.

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The door handle of
your truck, locked,

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the penny taped to your
window, still, the light

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in your bedroom window, late.

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Television is a writer's
medium, film a director's.

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David Chase thinks
"The Sopranos"

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are a failure and Norman
Mailer the closest thing

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to the great American
novel of today.

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Beloveds, we live in an
age of diminished returns,

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and empathize with
Tony's malaise.

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'I watch all this fighting,
you know,' Sommer emailed,

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'and these fighters
work their asses off.

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They say things like, "if
you want it, you can get it",

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as if that is utter truth.'

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Mike said he's not going
for happiness anymore,

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only contentment.

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I heard that attorneys
tell illegal immigrants not

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to drive, or even
get in cars, in case

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they're stopped for traffic
violations and deported.

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Barbara said it's like we're
all expatriates now living

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in our own country.

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Those with the least power hold
access to the purest truth.

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Sounds like Jesus, but I'm
paraphrasing Bill Moyers.

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I confess, my state
of mind is America.

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Something to do with
entropy, I think.

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The force of nothingness so much
stronger than its opposite."

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