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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.

Gene Weingarten

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way
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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Arduous Choices Inside Involving
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
Donald Trump is way worse than George W. Bush. George W. Bush is a fundamentally decent man of limited intelligence who surrounded himself with awful people who dragged him in terrible directions. He was a bad president.
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Men People Thinking
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
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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Cynical Intelligent People
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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Soul Thinking War
When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.
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Fake Mean News
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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Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Country People Trump
It is hard to quantify the value of name recognition, but Donald Trump has gone from fame to international mega-fame. That has to be gargantuan when your business is your name.
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Gone Names Recognition
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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Believe Monster People
I think there are a good many Donald Trump voters who are sick of government as it is practiced in America and genuinely want to blow up the system and see what happens. They are stupid – or at least unwise – but not necessarily racist.
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Blow Stupid Thinking
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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Clinton Evil Two
Politics is how you think about life itself.
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Itself Politics Thinking

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