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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Consequent English Loudly Misunderstanding Simply Spoken Trouble
You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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Childbirth Entirely Friendship Made Marriage Stand Story Strangest Tell
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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Coffee Country Institution Respect Terrible Traditional Trying
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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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
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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Eye Half Light Longing Looking Lost Minute Rise Shine Soul
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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Attacked Believe Possible Problem Right Side Something Trust
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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Alcohol Distract Father Finding Helpful Process Something Writing
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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Breakfast Classic Coffee Country Meal Skip Sort Think Thinking
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Come Fanaticism Flavor Human Being Many
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Breathe Choice First Language Our Second Swim Travel
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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Believe Country Distance Error Fault Language Simple
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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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Care First Last Look Love Sleep Someone Understand
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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Chose Circuitous Good Looking Mind More Path Route Showing Something Suggest Worthwhile
I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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Cooking Domestic Guilty Here Most Painless Party Take Truth Undue Virtue

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