Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
ADAM GOPNIKA good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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I try to turn a written thing, when I’m in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.
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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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The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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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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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of “I’s,” and a listening audience somehow turns each “I” into a “me.”
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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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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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