If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
ADAM GOPNIKNothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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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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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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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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