That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
ADAM GOPNIKThis alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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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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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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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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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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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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