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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

Adam Gopnik

We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Assure Call Disaster Imagine Such Thing Unimaginable
What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Ask First Lead Place Question Think Window
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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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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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Bending Drawing Instinct Instruction Player Risk Thing Those Uneasy
In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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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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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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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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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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