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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.

Adam Gopnik

You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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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 don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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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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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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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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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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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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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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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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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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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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