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
ADAM GOPNIKIt 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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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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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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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