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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

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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 is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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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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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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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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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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