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. . . the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

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I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

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Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Lost, Proportion, School, Self, Significance, Sports

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

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I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

Brutal, Kids, Makeup, Sensitive, Sweet, Violent

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

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I wonder if politicians know less about the land, now that they campaign by air.

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