It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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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 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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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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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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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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