Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
ADAM GOPNIKThe relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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