It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
ADAM GOPNIKThe light in your eyes shines because of the longing in your soul. And the longing in your souls rises because you are looking for the lost half minute.
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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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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish 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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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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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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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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