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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 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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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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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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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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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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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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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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