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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?

Adam Gopnik

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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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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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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Absence Bug Decor Essential Mind Missing Pun
A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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Believe Country Encumbered Hangover Mediaeval Monarchy Reality
Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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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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Autumn Doubtless Game Imagination Kind Light Nostalgic Played Series Some World
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
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
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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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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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