The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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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.
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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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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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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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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