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...really are and not the guy you constructed at the U and from Gary Cooper movies and tailored to the needs of Hubbard, Buttrick, Bickford & Barnes and re-tuned in therapy with Dr. Koren. Now you become the you you were afraid the world would find out about. Goombah, homeboy, cowpoke or hobo. Or, in my case, a limericist. But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet I am gathering rosebuds while I may, for the glory of flowers too soon is past and summer hath too short a lease and here it is, already gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Praise Of Laziness | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

There's a scene in the movie "Analyze This" in which the mob boss's fat bodyguard, Jelly, describes himself, with endearing objectivity, as "a f------ moron." But when the psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) repeats the assessment, telling the goombah frankly that he really is "a f------ moron," Jelly objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Can't Stand This Bush-Is-a-Moron Smugness | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

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