Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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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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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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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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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 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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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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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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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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