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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

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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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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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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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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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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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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 is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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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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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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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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