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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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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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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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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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