Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest … - Andy Rooney

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You can do all these kinds of things that are up close and personal, but you really have to bring your strength, and really - you have to really be committed to actually strangle the life out of somebody, to crush their larynx and just squeeze every drop of life out of them.

Andy Rooney

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

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Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.

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Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.

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Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.

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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

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I've learned. . . That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

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