For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
ADAM GOPNIKFanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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