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Satire is focused bitterness.


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The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.



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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.



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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.



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There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.



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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.



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Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.



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