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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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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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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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