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First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it. ”
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance. ”
I think we've gotten to a point where we're becoming really sensitive to things like body dysmorphia, but I think it's gone too far, where people are accusing everyone of hating themselves. ”
As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that. ”
It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture. ”
I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety. ”
Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground. ”