We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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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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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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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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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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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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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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