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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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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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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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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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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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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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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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 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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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