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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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