- Disappointment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
What can one man do even if he is the president?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even while writing about foreign places, I have been in a way writing about America, because that's the subject that interests me the most. I'm attached to it, critical, but it's definitely my country, and maybe even more so when I'm overseas.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero - these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are - in some cases, literally; in others, just figuratively - gangster heroes. That's who is worshipped: people who get away with it.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government; Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
For 20 years, my mother, my sister and I had seldom spoken of my father. If he happened to come up in conversation, pain and embarrassment entered the room and stayed until he disappeared back into the silence with which we all felt more at ease.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.
- Extremity
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020