We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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