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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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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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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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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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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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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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