Elif Batuman Quotes
Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Pregnancy is a very creative phase for me.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.
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If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
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Classics isn't about the ancient world. It's partly about the ancient world, but it's about our conversation. It's how we try to talk to antiquity.
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My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists.
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He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
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In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.
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Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.
