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.”
ADAM GOPNIKThe first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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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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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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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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