Politics is how you think about life itself.
GENE WEINGARTENSo, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.
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It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
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Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
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I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
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Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn’t care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don’t know where to find these people. Do you?
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