I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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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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