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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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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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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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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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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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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 future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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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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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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