The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
ADAM GOPNIKIf I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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It mocks mercilessly the pretensions to truth of Mormonism and the pretensions to virtue of Mormon missionaries.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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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?
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The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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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 drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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