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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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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 think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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