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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.

Adam Gopnik

Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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Draw Knowing Mistrust Poetry Produce Rhythm
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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Art Idea Mistrust Poetry Spend Talk Talking Truth Writing Year
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don’t exist…
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Book Contemporary Kid Knowledge Literature Long Oddest Unexpected
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine
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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Faith Fanaticism Horror People Trap Trick
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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Enter Found Individual Like Mind Reason Right Small Something Sound
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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Expression Found Question Say Something Strong Sweet True Winsome Word Writing
In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Additional Bookstore Field Interest Out Stuff Usually Way
The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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Fear Hysteria Incipient Invitation Note Real Relentless Scenarios Self Ungrounded
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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Artificial Good Invented Little Quality Secret Taste
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Engage Lover Magic Magician Master Maze Mind Permanent Poet
American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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Closed Country Dressed Everything Laborer Long Society World
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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Alive Freedom Giving Make Mean Powerful Richer Time Virtue
What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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Ask First Lead Place Question Think Window
Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:
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Accomplishment Adult Competence Less Professional relief Sense Sum
If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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Book Devout Go Inspire Mormon Offered Thing

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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