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No sober person has ever walked into a nightclub and said: “I like this. Let’s spend more time in places like this.”

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This is a little more than what I bargained for.

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There is something deep inside my soul that craves hard work. Something that craves feeling weary and hungry.

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In “State of the Union, 2004,” Vidal wrote, “Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.”