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The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.
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By the Reagan era, the 'culture of poverty' had become a cornerstone of conservative ideology: poverty was caused not by low wages or a lack of jobs but by bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles. The poor were dissolute, promiscuous, prone to addiction and crime, unable to 'defer gratification' or possibly even set an alarm clock. The last thing they could be trusted with was money.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
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The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.
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One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.
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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
