So, 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.
GENE WEINGARTENThe 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.
More Gene Weingarten Quotes
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I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
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America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.
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Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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Donald Trump is an awful loser.
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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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Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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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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Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.
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Politics is how you think about life itself.
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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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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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I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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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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