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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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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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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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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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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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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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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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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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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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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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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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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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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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