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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?

Adam Gopnik

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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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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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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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it.
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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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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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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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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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You can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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The 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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