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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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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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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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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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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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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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