What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
ADAM GOPNIKThat, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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 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.
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