Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
ADAM GOPNIKThe scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
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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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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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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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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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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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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