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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.

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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
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Come Fanaticism Flavor Human Being Many
For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Care First Last Look Love Sleep Someone Understand
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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Choose Give Herself More Only Understand Woman
The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Time Visible Visitor
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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Coffee Country Institution Respect Terrible Traditional Trying
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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British Good Institution Modern Monarchy Perhaps Political Really
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Engage Lover Magic Magician Master Maze Mind Permanent Poet
Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Draw Knowing Mistrust Poetry Produce Rhythm
American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Closed Country Dressed Everything Laborer Long Society World
Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Alchemies Childbirth Connection Friendship Human Marriage Self Sex Strangest Writing
A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Emotional Fact Intensity Look People Photography Sleep
I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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Anyone Journalist Practice Question Target Think Thinking Trying Understand
We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Assure Call Disaster Imagine Such Thing Unimaginable
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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Age Bad Country Eye Faith Good Heart Malice People Reread Thurber Working Writing
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

American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.

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