I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
ADAM GOPNIKIt mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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