I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
ADAM GOPNIKFor a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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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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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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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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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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What 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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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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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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