I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts…

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Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who...

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who...

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you...

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you...

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that...

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that...

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the...

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the...

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the...

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the...

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that...

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that...

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as...

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as...

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of...

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of...

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like...

Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like...

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how...

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how...

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you...

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you...

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of...

The first funeral for Andrew Goodman was at night and it was a lot of...

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how...

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how...

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the...

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the...

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool,...

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool,...