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“I really have to weave these long silks as I spin them. If I shortened my sentences, it would make pieces of sentences, not full sentences. [I need to] encircle the truth with a single--if long and sinuous--stroke. Very few weavers around. [The last sentence is apocryphal].”
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“My speeches last a long time because of the weave, you know, I mean, I weave stories into it.... ou’ve got to weave it out. So you â€� but you always have to â€� as you say, you always have to get right back to work. Otherwise, it’s no good. But the weave is very, very important. Very few weavers around. But it’s a big strain on your â€� you know, it’s a big â€� it’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of work.”
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“Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become tainted, like most things American, by the puritanical paradigm of original sin.”
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