I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
ADAM GOPNIKThat any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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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 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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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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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 scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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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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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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