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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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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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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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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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