All his life he has avoided permanent intimacy. Till this war he has been a better lover than husband. He has been a man who slips away, in the way lovers leave chaos, the way thieves leave reduced houses.

From a selection of his other works, we might think him variously courtly, cerebral, metaphysical, melancholic, Machiavellian, neurotic, lighthearted, loving, and much more. Shakespeare was of course all these things—as a writer. We hardly know what he was as a person.

Linguist say parties in the conversation will tolerate silence for four seconds before interjecting anything, however unrelated.

The American people are smart. They&#39;ve gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

John Avlon

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