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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.

Adam Gopnik

I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Add Argument Infinitely Information Rock Rush Rushtling Star Web
It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Mercilessly Missionaries Mock Mormonism Pretension Truth Virtue
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Come Fanaticism Flavor Human Being Many
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Alcohol Distract Father Finding Helpful Process Something Writing
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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Dinner Food Prisoner Punish Punishment Water
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Block Keep Often Sense Simplicity Wall Word Writing
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Back Befogged Listening might Often Past Present Still Unknowable
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.

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