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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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