From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
GENE WEINGARTENI don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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I think politics is everything.
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So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
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Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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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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I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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