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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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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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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 – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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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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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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