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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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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