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There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.


J. D. Salinger

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HEATHER BROOKE If you're not in
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JASON EPSTEIN This is a publishing phenomenon.
ETHAN FRIEDMAN Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.
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CHAD HARBACH A clear unwarranted invasion of privacy.
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VICTORIA STRAUSS I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
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ELISABETH SCHARLATT This is a strategic move to further strengthen our book publishing business.
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DANNY MCGOORTY I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy
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J. D. SOUTHER I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monop...
J. D. VANCE Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody ha...
D. J. HICKS Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to...
D. J. ENRIGHT My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar w...
J. D. VANCE It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and up...
J. D. VANCE I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government larges...
J. D. VANCE People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfull...
J. D. VANCE In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a br...
J. D. VANCE I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
J. D. SOUTHER There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think...
J. D. SOUTHER I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose th...
J. D. VANCE My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose...
J. D. VANCE It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that ...
J. D. VANCE Hindsight follows consequence. However it does not necessarily follow, that as a result of the conse...
J D GABRIEL For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou...
J. D. VANCE We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordere...
J. D. VANCE One of the most interesting social trends of the past 20 years is the rise of residential segregatio...
J. D. VANCE I almost failed out of high school. I nearly gave in to the deep anger and resentment harbored by ev...
J. D. VANCE I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so fa...
J. D. VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe...
J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif...
J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w...
J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ...
J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ...
J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme...
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