Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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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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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 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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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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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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