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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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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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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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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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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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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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