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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

Adam Gopnik

We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Assure Call Disaster Imagine Such Thing Unimaginable
You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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 past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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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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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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