Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
Bailey, a former prosecutor, attacked her credibility scattershot, an approach he would use throughout the trial, particularly with female witnesses. ...He accused her, that is--without coming out and...
Literature had torn Tessa and me apart, or prevented us from merging in the first place. That was its role in the world, I'd started to fear: to conjure up disagreements that didn't matter and inspire...
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
I think people get a sense of possibility when they're on a plane, even romantic possibility, wondering if the perfect person is going to sit down next to them or something.
Purple Noon.
It’s the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We’ll look at clocks and we won’t believe the hands. They’ll forecast sun but we’ll pack our slickers anyway.
The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you’re lost now.
Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owner...
I could see tall ideas standing up behind his eyes.
The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.
Philippe,
I have very specific advice for aspiring writers: go to New York. And if you can't go to New York, go to the place that represents New York to you, where the standards for writing are high, there are...
Other people's devotions embarrassed me, perhaps because, like other people's kisses, they rarely looked genuine when viewed too closely.
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