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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes

Adam Gopnik

The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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Capitalism Feel Giving Make Need Perhaps Silly Simple Sin Stuff
I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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Cooking Domestic Guilty Here Most Painless Party Take Truth Undue Virtue
Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Block Keep Often Sense Simplicity Wall Word Writing
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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Find Joy Once Said Sentiment Someone True Understand Writing
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Additional Bookstore Field Interest Out Stuff Usually Way
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
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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Breakfast Classic Coffee Country Meal Skip Sort Think Thinking
If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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Determine Exactly Full Listening might Room Stanton Still Sure Weeping
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Afterward Better Defined Enacted Know Leave Light Love Paper Trace
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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Answer Country Easy Grander Kill Same Thing Tonight Yourself
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Climate Kind Shared Weather Writer Writing
Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Bad Good MIssed Missing Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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Apply Art Beautiful Brain Exist Mind Most Music Singer Song Sophisticated
We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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Emotion Eye Feel Lost Minute Name Somehow Thinking
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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Anyone Certainty Easily Fluency Practice Pressure Think Thinking Writing

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