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.
ADAM GOPNIKIf 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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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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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I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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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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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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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 relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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