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Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you…
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels…
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I root for hurricanes. When, courtesy of the Weather Channel, I see one forming in the ocean off the coast of Africa,…
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic…
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Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.
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Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.
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Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
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High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted'…
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I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for…
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My high-school papers, my college-application essays, read like Norman Mailer packed in a crunchy-peanut-butter sandwich.
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A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul…
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A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as…
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The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my…
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The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law.
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Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks…
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Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.
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And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters…
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
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There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the…
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What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and…
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They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the…
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It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in…
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Jesus Christ.” The fury on Nick’s face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his…
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