Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
ADAM GOPNIKMen choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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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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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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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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