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Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
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I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now?…
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[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you…
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance
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If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood…
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How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need…
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Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by…
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Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in…
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If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.
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The writer’s life is a life of revisions.
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When you stay in your room and rage or sneer or shrug your shoulders, as I did for many years, the world…
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If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into…
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We're giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed.
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The American experiment has come and gone. Whatever freedoms the people still might have as their own, are monitored and registered and…
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When you've seen prejudice, you understand that we aren't finished, that we're still perfecting this American experiment.
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For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at…
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Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.
— Dennis Prager
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He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the…
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Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature…
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