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.
ADAM GOPNIKI 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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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