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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:

Adam Gopnik

I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Eye Half Light Longing Looking Lost Minute Rise Shine Soul
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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Being Complicated Expatriate Feeling Free Kind Loneliness Odd
Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Anyone Certainty Easily Fluency Practice Pressure Think Thinking Writing
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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Book Contemporary Kid Knowledge Literature Long Oddest Unexpected
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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Answer Country Easy Grander Kill Same Thing Tonight Yourself
I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Chance Joy Miss Missing Obligation Opinionated Regret Share
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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Desire Happen Hot Overwhelming Something Truly Underlying
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
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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Doing Journalism Journalist Practice Practising Satire Satirist Start
When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine
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
If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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Attacked Believe Possible Problem Right Side Something Trust
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

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