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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.

Adam Gopnik

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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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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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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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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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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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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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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