Pain and aging.
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What is your worst intellectual habit?Originally asked
Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Novelist and essayist
Reading too many books at the same time.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Novelist, poet and essayist
But I will be horrified by the way I say kind of and like, and I keep qualifying everything. That’s very feminine. I would like to say it plain, but it always comes out with all these silly qualifiers.
Henry Rollins
Musician, writer and broadcaster
Rushing to judgment. Looking for the bad in someone else before anything else.
Adam Gopnik
Staff writer at The New Yorker; essayist
My very wise and politically savvy 17-year-old daughter says I get too emotional about political issues. I think she’s right. She knows that if she sees me race across a room, I have just read something about Trump. Turning ideas into feelings is the thing an essayist is supposed to do, but political punditry should probably be more detached.
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