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- The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all…
- All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.
- People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This…
- The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all,…
- Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old…
- Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that…
- All the things we don’t say, all the words we swallow, and it makes nothing but trouble.
- After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight…
- All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
- Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall…
- All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women.
- Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're…
- the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.
- Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you…
- You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
- There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or…
- All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
- All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
- Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism,…
- London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always…
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