The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
ADAM GOPNIKThat 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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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 special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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