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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.

Adam Gopnik

Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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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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American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World.
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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 special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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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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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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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.
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Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow?
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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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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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