Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
GENE WEINGARTENShakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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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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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
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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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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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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 see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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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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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.
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From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
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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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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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