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“American Jews, like Americans, have a very consumerist attitude toward their identity: they pick and choose the bits of this and that they like.”

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Leon Wieseltier

Leon Wieseltier, born on June 14, 1952, is an accomplished American writer. His work spans a variety of fields including literary criticism, political commentary, and philosophical thought, known for its profound insights and incisive writing. more

“You're a product of our language, and how our laws are and how we believe our God wants us. Every bitty molecule about you has already been thought out by some million people before you. Anything you can do is boring and old and perfectly okay. You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it. You can't imagine any way to escape. There's no way you can get out.The world is your cradle and your trap.”

People World Way Want Believe Law Culture Language Can Do Millions Imagine Products Fine Safe Okay Boring Trapped Traps Want U Cradle Molecules

Book:Invisible Monsters Remix

Source: Invisible Monsters Remix

“The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.”

Progress Fields Products Lonely Avant Garde Friendless Uninvited

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Oddly, though, lists are reassuring. We become aware of this if we scrupulously follow a recipe, which is essentially a list of ingredients and actions; but if we give this 'list' too much importance, we leave no room for the imagination.”

Ifs Giving Action Imagination Rooms Too Much Importance Lists Ingredients Recipes Reassuring

Author:Jean-Claude Ellena

“I was confident that it [would] not in any way affect my ability to be impartial, objective and non-partisan.”

Way Ability Objectives Partisans

Author:Calvin Cheng

“Are Singaporeans so easily offended? Please. Have more of a backbone and thick-skin. Are you going to go on a frenzied witch hunt just because some foreigner called you a loser on the Internet?”

Goes On Internet Please Skins Witch Loser Thick Offended Hunts Foreigners Backbone Thick Skin Witch Hunt Easily Offended

Author:Calvin Cheng

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