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I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

Gene Weingarten

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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One Thing Thinking Writing
America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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America Country Thinking
It is not a coincidence that Donald Trump has attracted white supremacists.
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Coincidence Trump White
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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Important People Use
I think politics is everything.
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Everything Politics Thinking
I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.
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Believe Matter Thinking
I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
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Careers Decision School
I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.
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Beliefs Ethnicity Race
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Advertising Men Ridiculous
One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.
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Books Doctors Kings
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
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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Kitten Murder Preparation
Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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Awful Loser Trump
Allowing a non-lawyer to be on the Supreme Court strikes me as a very American thing, in a good way. Another is that the speaker of the house doesn’t have to be a member of congress.
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Constitution Court House Supreme
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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Change Greatest Many Won
My preference would have been a school that was totally diverse – half and half, or close. I wouldn’t have hesitated at all if they would have been in the racial minority. But to be the only white kids: I don’t think that would have been fair to them.
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Kids Minority School

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