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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Adam Gopnik

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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Heart Ingredient Most Openly Protein Sleeve Valued Wore Year
The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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Capitalism Feel Grace Hope Material Object Possibility Stuff Urgency Want
We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Assure Call Disaster Imagine Such Thing Unimaginable
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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Bad Good MIssed Missing Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Care First Last Look Love Sleep Someone Understand
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Additional Bookstore Field Interest Out Stuff Usually Way
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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Book Devout Go Inspire Mormon Offered Thing
The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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British Good Institution Modern Monarchy Perhaps Political Really
I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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Add Argument Infinitely Information Rock Rush Rushtling Star Web
The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Autumn Doubtless Game Imagination Kind Light Nostalgic Played Series Some World
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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Expression Found Question Say Something Strong Sweet True Winsome Word Writing
I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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Always Drawn Idea Particularly People Sophisticated Think Thinking
I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Confection Make More Think Sense Sentence Slightly Write Written
I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Argument Imagination Spoken Stories Trouble Try Trying Written

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