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- I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from…
- I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by…
- Religion is close to theatre; much of its power comes from the effects of staging and framing.
- I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too, a fear informed…
- We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are…
- Each time I caught sight of geese swooping in formation across the sky, I wondered how our life below might look from their perspective, and…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle