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  1. You got through a day and wondered what your reward was. It soon became evident the prize was you got to withstand tomorrow too. You got th…
  2. First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's …
  3. The curse of the middle-aged man was knowing - or believing - that he'd told all he had to tell. Soon as you suspect that, you started want…
  4. I realized then why we respond to the sound of the waves, and the falling of rain, and wind in the trees. Because they are meaningless. The…
  5. Hotels see a lot of life. Hotels get kicked around. The action the average city hotel sees would give a normal house a nervous breakdown in…
  6. The United States is different because I've spent a lot of time there since, and so there's more of a continuum. It's definitely the U.S. t…
  7. Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.
  8. My favourite memories involve the actual process of writing sketches - just a few guys lounging around in a room talking nonsense, until su…

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