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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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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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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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