I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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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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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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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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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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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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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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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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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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