That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
ADAM GOPNIKWhat do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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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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