Making an idea into an emotion.
ADAM GOPNIKThat any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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