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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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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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