Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
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We will no longer tolerate from this day the security anarchy, the armed chaos and the kidnappings,
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I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of read more
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Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirable to make cannot be read more
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We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.
We're moving sound closer and closer. It's really increasing pressure on the ear.
Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very poor read more
Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very poor shots.
We can't have a DJ every day, but they sure enjoyed it. At the raffle desk, we had people sign read more
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