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- Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
- Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East…
- But sometimes it's like you just meet someone and you just know that you're totally connected, and this person is, like, your brother - or…
- Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a…
- These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the…
- I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick…
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- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back. — Lance Armstrong
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