That melting pot stuff was always more about what this country wanted to believe about itself than the way people really felt.
Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.
It's funny, in a human kind of way, how we can convince ourselves that we're in control at the very moment we are beginning to lose it.
Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.
People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice
At some time during the process, [of writing] I came up with a therapeutic device. After each draft I would tear up the pages and feed the paper to a worm compost I keep in my garage. A few months lat...
A veteran, calm and assured, he pauses for a well-measured moment in the doorway of the office and then, boldly, clearly, with the subtly modulated British intonation which his public demands of him,...
I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.
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