To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

Dick Cavett
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  1. I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

  2. If your parents never had children, chances are you won’t either.

  3. The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

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  5. The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to...

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