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

Adam Gopnik

In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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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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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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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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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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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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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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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.
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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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