The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
ADAM GOPNIKYou can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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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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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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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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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