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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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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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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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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