I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
ADAM GOPNIKThe future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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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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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 that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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It 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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