Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
ADAM GOPNIKNew York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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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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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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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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