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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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And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
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My most recent project for The Sims Label (2011 – 2012) involved creating detailed Flash mockups exploring game play and UI designs…
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The heart of the Christian Gospel is precisely that God is the all holy One; the all powerful One is also the…
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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers…
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A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the…
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The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head Were shaken,…
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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
— Edna Ferber
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