If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
ADAM GOPNIKThe trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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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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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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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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