It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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