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Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.
Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
You might try the gym from time to time. It really is something you can incorporate into your life pretty seamlessly.
Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Come little cottage girl, you seem to want my cup of tea; and will you take a little cream? Now tell the truth to me!
The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.
The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.
Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.
I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture.
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.
I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.
I'm happy. I've had a great career. I adore my family. My closest friends from decades ago remain my closest friends.
Once you apologize, then the press wants you to get down on your knees and say you're sorry. They are not appeasable.
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.
One of the nice things about 'The New Yorker' is they let you write stories that sometimes end up almost half a book.
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you are grateful for.
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Im off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
The goal [is] not only to earn high returns at the top of the cycle but also to avoid giving them back at the bottom.
The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
The one thing you learn from looking at places like Afghanistan is that the power of business to do good is enormous.
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating.
The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.
The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.
The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.
Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.
Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
Maybe, so Donald Trump didn't start the fire at this particular Chicago protest, but fanning the flames is a problem.
You can see when that happens with bands when they do TV appearances; they just shut down. They get really irritated.