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No doubt, there are those who believe that judges-and particularly dissenting judges-write to hear themselves say, as it were, I I I.… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
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It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
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I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
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You just did a whole read-through. The lie that brought us into war was that Iraq was a threat to us. Well,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
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The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into… — Ciro Guerra Copy Share Image
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