We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
ADAM GOPNIKYou 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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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 is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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Merely that you start off with ideas buzzing around in your head, and then you try to give them the simpler, more graceful shape, of a feeling that a reader might share.
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You learn to sing with, not argue at, your possible readers.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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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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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 that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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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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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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