For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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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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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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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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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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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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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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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 that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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