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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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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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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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