The number of people who can't live with themselves or others is expanding. It's not funny, it's sad; new hospitals must be found.
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Free speech, a myth made in heaven.
The right to assemble, a relative fantasy.
Some days you look out the window and all you can see is the newspaper. Everything looks provincial then, no matter where you live.
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'They did not read Darwin, much preferring the Marquis de Sade', to paraphrase Hannah Arendt writing about the rise of Nazism in The Origins of Totalitarianism.
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The artist is ready to step under the yellow barricade tape and enter the scene of the crime.
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How do you feel this morning?
I feel blah but don't want to speak of it, the blahness I feel.
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The president, whose face is now the shade of a newly-minted Cheetoh, makes a good argument for eating junk food:
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I died in a dream the other night. Upon my death I am supposedly 'admitted' to heaven and taken there in an ambulance escorted by a squad of police cars, a cortege accompanied by wailing sirens.
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The White House press release yesterday on the cancellation of VP Mike Pence's political rallies in Florida and Arizona cited, "an abundance of caution."
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The predisposition is dystopian, one bestseller after another that others have put their lives aside to write. Art is no longer made to be remembered,
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I like to think that salmon and lemons came into the world at the same time, 1950, the year of my birth, because it makes me happy to think this is so and provides a basis for my mistaken belief
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The concept of the never-ending accumulation of capital, and that capital, needing somewhere to go, having nowhere else to go other than into the arms of expansionist imperialism
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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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