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Converting the war into an antislavery crusade was a brilliant move on Lincoln's part, and it resulted in a surge of voluntary recruits into the Union army. But this did not last. Northerners may have disapproved of slavery in the South but, once the bloodletting began in earnest, their willingness to die for that conviction began to wane. [. . . ] Lincoln faced the embarrassing reality that he soon would have no army to carry on the crusade.

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Diana Abu-Jaber

If you only write for 15 minutes at a time, you can write a book and still have time for Legos.

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For me, almost always, the answer was cake.

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If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it. . . with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.

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Dad says that everyone invented baklava. ” It occurs to me now to wonder what that means. Aunt Aya rolls her eyes. “Your father? He is the worst of the worst. He thinks he cooks and eats Arabic food but these walnuts were not grown from Jordanian earth and this butter was not made from Jordanian lambs. He is eating the shadow of a memory. He cooks to remember but the more he eats, the more he forgets.

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I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality. I think food can be dangerous to write about because if you don't manage to mediate it somehow, it can be the worst sort of greeting card.

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Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

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