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• Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
• Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,…
• Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself…
• After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.
• Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on…
• American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as…
• The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free,…
• The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore…
• The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time…
• Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the…
• Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long,…
• There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind…

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