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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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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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