The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
ADAM GOPNIKI think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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