A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you … - Katherine Boo

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My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two

Katherine Boo

A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught

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But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.

Citizens, Legitimate, People, Writing

. . . much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

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My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions. Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of what’s happening to people who have none.

Give, Giving, Jobs, People, Prescriptions, World

In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.

Important, Reporting, See, Understanding, World, Written

I'm useless when I meet writers I love - I go slack-jawed and stupid with awe.

Awe, Stupid, Useless, Writers

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One can't be too dangerous, if they like to eat pancakes. Especially with jam on it.

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Tariq Ramadan

We need to acknowledge that there is a real issue with how the Scriptures are being interpreted. Whenever I am told that terrorists are not Muslim, I systematically reply that they actually are, and they cannot be marginalised, the same way they are marginalising other Muslim people. Scriptures are quoted even though their interpretations are twisted. In the face of misinterpretation the only way out would be using another interpretation of the Scriptures.

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Marilynne Robinson

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

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John C. Dvorak

Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows.

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Cheryl Ladd

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