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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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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 scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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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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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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