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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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