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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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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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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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 think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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