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.
ADAM GOPNIKLove, 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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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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In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.
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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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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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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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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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