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““Never have I know spirits so low they could not be raised by hearing of a Frenchman eaten by a shark!””

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It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for…

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“and no more real Dunkin’ Donuts.”

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Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn.

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“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.”

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I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest…

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It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are…

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A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood.

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“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully”

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In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think…

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“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to watch you…

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Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to…

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