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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not right to think about all of Jewish-German history as shrouded by the smoke of the crematorium.
- Jewish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.
- African Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that religion can actually be something... attached to progressivism seems so bizarre. But all you have to say is that Abolition wouldn't have happened without it. The way in which African Americans managed to achieve a degree of self-determination was through the church.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
- Forties
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- Nov 07, 2020
The British who arrived in the United States in the eighteen-thirties and forties had imagined the young republic as a wide-eyed adolescent, socially ungainly and politically gauche, but with some hint of promise.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.
- Glittering
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have this magpie instinct for the next glittering object. There are one or two things I know I can't write about, though: DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was an absolute embarrassment to read it. All these horrible mucked-up bits of syntax, over-the-top adjectives. I found myself editing it while reading. Alert listeners will notice the difference.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to historians overwhelmingly powerful and moving, even when ostensibly about trivial things.
- Fine Print
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Einstein way, I can't believe in a universe that doesn't have some sort of prime mover, identical with all of created nature. I have a whole lot of a harder time with supposing the fine print of the Torah was a direct revelation.
- Chronology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somehow, the words don't have any vitality, any life to them, unless I can feel it marking on a paper. That's how I start. Once I'm off, then I switch to the laptop. I think it would all just be prose if it started on a laptop - not that what I do is poetry.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt New York was a big, more stylish, more metropolitan Golders Green. I was thrilled.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020