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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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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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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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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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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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