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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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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 French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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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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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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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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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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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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