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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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