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.
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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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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 don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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For all the years I’d spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I
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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 sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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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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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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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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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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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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