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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Come Fanaticism Flavor Human Being Many
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 trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Faith Fanaticism Horror People Trap Trick
There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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Explore First Goes Journey Kind People Reel Thinking Traveler Two
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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Chose Circuitous Good Looking Mind More Path Route Showing Something Suggest Worthwhile
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
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
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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Age Bad Country Eye Faith Good Heart Malice People Reread Thurber Working Writing
The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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But Easier First More One Second See Time Visible Visitor
What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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Behaviour Clarity Declare Emotion Human Reflect Simplest Table Value Way
I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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Believe Country Distance Error Fault Language Simple
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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Book Contemporary Kid Knowledge Literature Long Oddest Unexpected
The light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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Eye Half Light Longing Looking Lost Minute Rise Shine Soul
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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