What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
ADAM GOPNIKWe call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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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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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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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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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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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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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