The president's humor is of the self-pitying variety, in which the joke is not only not funny it is a self-reflective complaint of mistreatment at the hands of all those he claims mean to do him harm.
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The idea for the next painting: to enclose a poem in fire using geometric shapes while acknowledging fire contains the color white.
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To advocate for democracy is to discuss far-fetched, unachievable notions, though I now have good reason to say, "my country is truly amazing."
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We live in a time when we are constantly asking ourselves, "did that just happen?" There's a sense of us drawing together, that the rich and the poor among us are one people and both are causalities of war.
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Reading the essays of Renata Adler while re-reading her novel "Speedboat", I foresee the time when I will lose an idea the moment after it comes to me and/or the very moment I honor
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A certain ideology becomes epidemiological, as is currently the case in the USA, when a worldview is wrapped in wads of ten dollar bills that grow exponentially through hot and cold wars to sums that are unimaginable,
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My whole adult life has been spent going after something original, but of light weight.
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Feeling I'm being retro-fitted back into the world, I marched for freedom yesterday.
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At a certain age I woke up and realized that I was a journalist covering a story I'd never get to the bottom of.
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The expendability of human life seems to be in vogue now, having replaced man's inhumanity to man as the chief motif of serious social discussion and literary practice..
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I am surprised F___loves rockets. He's the last person on earth I would have guessed to unabashedly admire space launches, as he's a fierce critic of the USA and deplores almost every one of its institutions.
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13% of the total population is purple.
Of this 13%, 11% are literate, that is, able to read.
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Citizenship is a kind of real estate, the space you and I occupy for which we are responsible and through which we express and share our private and public lives.
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At 11 am yesterday my neighbor Ethan Tong, 16, stepped out onto his back porch and played Mendelsohnn, a violin concerto.
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One thing to be gleaned from the distant past is that it's neither better or worse than one thought it was at the time; it's a gnomic progression as witnessed by ancestors who guide us thoughtfully through piles of truths, half-truths, and lies.
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We live in primitive times once again, with the proviso now that we always have and always will. Repression feels palpable.
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Is it too early to say that Karl Marx is coming through on his original prognosis?
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Novels are no longer allowed to begin with the words, 'once upon a time' but are now to begin with the words, 'everything happened so long ago.'
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The differences between the literal and the figurative do matter. There was a reason Cezanne painted the same mountain over and over, beside his ability to see it from the front door of his home.
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I'm having a strange new love affair with time; time doesn't require as much from me as it once did. Very strange this feeling, not only the reduction of expectation as advised by the Buddha
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