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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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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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 don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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