After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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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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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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