The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
Adam GopnikWhat 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.
Adam GopnikSomeone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
Adam GopnikLove, 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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