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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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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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Country Exactly Hand Heart Looked Sleeve Supposed
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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Choose Give Herself More Only Understand Woman
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Alcohol Distract Father Finding Helpful Process Something Writing
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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Find Joy Once Said Sentiment Someone True Understand Writing
I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Agreeably Intensely More Oiontated Speak Think Thinking Writing
The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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British Good Institution Modern Monarchy Perhaps Political Really
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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Heart Ingredient Most Openly Protein Sleeve Valued Wore Year
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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Coffee Country Institution Respect Terrible Traditional Trying
Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Anand Thakur
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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Burst Human Illuminated Malevolence Moneygrubbing Occasional Official Pretty Rhythm Sordid Violence
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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Attitude Cooking Course Decent Party People Professional Simplicity Thinking
That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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