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The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world.
What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
Abstracted hatred is incredibly potent. There's never the risk of having it challenged by the reality of living human beings.
Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.
The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.
Turkey's great if you're one of those people who can't sleep on planes because when the tryptophan kicks in, it's no problem.
Lesbianism has always seemed to me an extremely inventive response to a shortage of men, but otherwise not worth the trouble.
Your hair doesn't need to be washed every day any more than your black pants have to be dry-cleaned every time you wear them.
I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.
Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
What narrative journalism does is create a language or open up a space where someone can say, "Oh, this happened to me, too."
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Once upon a time in America, people aspired to party like a rock star. Now, rock stars aspire to party like a football owner.
With the iPod - Apple's first successful stab at market dominance - Apple had begun with a high price but quickly dropped it.
Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.
Vote Republican if you like, but don't kid yourself that a Republican president would replace Obamacare with anything at all.
The digitally native generation has no idea what has been lost to the freedom of intimacy that has no fear of being recorded.
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.
Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.
Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.
What the Spanish War began the World War accomplished: America became the world's banker and ceased to be the world's pioneer!
Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.
You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.
We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration