Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
ADAM GOPNIKSomeone 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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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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