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The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Gene Weingarten

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man who, when accused by Hillary Clinton of being a Putin puppet, actually responded: No puppet! No puppet! YOU'RE the puppet.
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Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.
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Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.
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The verb Garland should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.
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I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don't think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.
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One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.
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I don't hold doors for women. I'm not sure I really differentiate between men and women, in my door-related activities. Do women really care about this issue?
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It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.
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I always thought there was some cleverness to the joke diet in which you could eat as much as you want and as often as you want, but everything must be consumed naked in front of a full-length mirror. That would deter me!
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Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.
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I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.
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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.
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I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.
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You should support Israel not because it is Jewish but because it is a sane, secular democracy. You want Lebanon to be at peace. You don't care much about Kuwait.
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Donald Trump would never belong to a church that required a ten percent hit. He's too smart.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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