The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
ADAM GOPNIKWhat 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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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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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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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