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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.

Adam Gopnik

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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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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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 first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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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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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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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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