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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum

Adam Gopnik

Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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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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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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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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