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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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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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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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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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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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