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My understanding of romantic relationships in literature, where men endlessly pursuing women is regarded as idealistic and romantic, whereas women endlessly pursuing men is regarded as pathetic.

— Dara Horn Interview with Jewish Women's Archive (2018)

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How old we all are, eternally old, forever holding hands with the past.

You can’t write without inventing.

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Judaism is much bigger on commitment than fulfillment.

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It reminds me of that anemic element of the way I grew up in a community where it was like, here’s Jewish history: There was a shtetl, and there was a Holocaust, and now there’s Israel.

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"Censorship" is beside the point, the insane extremes of "cancel culture" extravagantly irrelevant, because this double helix of hate and art is built into our world. ("Commuting with Shylock")

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