What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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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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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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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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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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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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