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There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.
Statistically, people who have been happily married and then widowed tend to remarry.
I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.
Washington is a city of important men and the women they married before they grew up.
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
The replenishing thing that comes with a nap - you end up with two mornings in a day.
Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.
Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.
I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag
If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon
Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.
Anything may be possible in America, but a Palin presidency is virtually implausible.
There’s no such thing as being totally ‘found’…the fun, I think, is in the searching.
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.
If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.
Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.
Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.
Because Facebook can't exist without AI, it needs all its engineers to build with it.
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.
Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet.
Public life has become so gladiatorial. Every day, another reputation bites the dust.
When I took over 'The New Yorker,' there was a very, very good, smart staff in place.
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
Six days after 9/11 George W. Bush visited a mosque and said quote, "Islam is peace."
I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
In a correction, other people's stocks go down, in a bear market, your stocks go down.
The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.
EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
GUILLOTINE, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
There's a lot I don't understand... but not understanding is better than not believing
Whether a president can truly improve, or damage, an economy remains an open question.
The anti-European Tories were a fringe group - until they took over their whole party.
The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong
When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.