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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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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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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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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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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 think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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