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It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

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Gene Weingarten
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 2
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Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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The total wall is between editorial and newsroom. And unbreachable barrier. For good reason. It doesn't mean the two sides don't talk.
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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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Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.
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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.
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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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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 think politics is everything.
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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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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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I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.
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Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.
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