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 GOPNIKAmericans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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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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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.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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