Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
ADAM GOPNIKIt 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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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