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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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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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