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As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.

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Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.

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Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

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Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

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Donald Trump wouldn't work on paper. Obnoxious, crass, boastful, and vulgar, with garish tastes and a Stepford wife - as a fictional character, he'd seem too crudely drawn. Even in a trashy airport thriller, readers wouldn't buy such a boor as president.

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As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.

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Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

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I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other and exchanging ideas and practices is self-evidently one of the most productive, fascinating aspects of modern urban life.

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Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve.

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Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 18th, 1957

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