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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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.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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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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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 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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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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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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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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In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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