What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
ADAM GOPNIKNothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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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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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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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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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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