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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?

Adam Gopnik

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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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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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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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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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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