The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
GENE WEINGARTENThe verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.
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Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
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I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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The people who are voting for Trump are not voting rationally.
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