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It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Also Any Bleak Change Feel Girl Gone Good Good News Need News Possibility Possible Powerful Receive Seen Something Terribly Testimony Watch You

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Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Counting Holiday Magical Power Season Spooky Time

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Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.'

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Advent Because Calendar Celebration Christmas Days End Fitness Holiday Imposed Like Lists Natural New New Year Numbers Order Songs Things Time Twelve Well Why Year

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Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Based Lists Realism Resources

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Most Americans have probably heard the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' about a billion times in the supermarket alone.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Alone American Billion Coming Heard Most Santa Santa Claus Song Supermarket Times Town

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The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: African Drum First First Time Forest Hands Held Istanbul Northern Suburbs Time University

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Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Anyone Come Detective Ever Hardest Hardest Thing Knows Motive Mystery Plot The Hardest Thing Thing Tried Up Who

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Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About Also Close Conversation Earth End End Of The World Every Every Time Instant Internal Lives Magical Making Meteor Off Our Our Lives Passing Pizza Seem Slow Soundtrack Stars Think Thinking Time Tractor Turn World

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I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: Because Grew Idealize Immoral In The Past Past Penicillin Slavery Thinking Up

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The Himalayan glaciers, China's trade surplus, Olympic ice hockey - the world is full of pressing subjects that people never consult me about.

~Elif Batuman

Topics: About China Consult Full Glaciers Hockey Ice Me Never Olympic People Pressing Subjects Surplus Trade World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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