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Adam Gopnik

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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Keenest Mean Meeting Restaurant Someplace Thinking Wine
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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Correctional Country Fact Height More People Supervision Understand
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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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Emotional Fact Intensity Look People Photography Sleep
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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Engage Lover Magic Magician Master Maze Mind Permanent Poet
Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Bad Good MIssed Missing Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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Consequent English Loudly Misunderstanding Simply Spoken Trouble
The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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Advantage Amazing Desire Future Loyalty Matter Past Sense Technologically
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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Afterward Better Defined Enacted Know Leave Light Love Paper Trace
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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Country Exactly Hand Heart Looked Sleeve Supposed
When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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Beautiful Guy Handsome Impresses Intellect Man Mind Woman Work
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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Choose Give Herself More Only Understand Woman
For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Beauty Black Breath Coffee Cup Empty Idea Page Screen Staring Unique
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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Expression Found Question Say Something Strong Sweet True Winsome Word Writing
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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Always Country Experience Memories Place Possible State Worldwide
We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Assure Call Disaster Imagine Such Thing Unimaginable

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