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.
ADAM GOPNIKGood editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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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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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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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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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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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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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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Making an idea into an emotion.
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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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