Making an idea into an emotion.
ADAM GOPNIKWomen 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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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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