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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

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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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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 good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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