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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:

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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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Being Complicated Expatriate Feeling Free Kind Loneliness Odd
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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Find Joy Once Said Sentiment Someone True Understand Writing
I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Chance Joy Miss Missing Obligation Opinionated Regret Share
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
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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Accomplishment Adult Competence Less Professional relief Sense Sum
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Climate Kind Shared Weather Writer Writing
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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Doing Journalism Journalist Practice Practising Satire Satirist Start
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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Always Country Experience Memories Place Possible State Worldwide
Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Draw Knowing Mistrust Poetry Produce Rhythm
Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Deep Deeply Evidence Good Outward Sometimes Think Thinking Time
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
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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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Dinner Food Prisoner Punish Punishment Water
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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Coffee Country Institution Respect Terrible Traditional Trying
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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Believe Country Distance Error Fault Language Simple
The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Eye Half Light Longing Looking Lost Minute Rise Shine Soul

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