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“People come to New York City because they want something different... now, people are just getting the sterilized version of that.”

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Robert Anasi

Robert Anasi, born in 1966, is an American writer whose works span various genres, including novels, essays, and poetry. Anasi is known for his unique literary style and profound insights into human nature. more

“In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate authority. . . . In Scott's incisive blend of art history, sociology, and sports writing, he makes a daring and original statement about fighters and the artists who enshrined them.”

Writing Art Artist Sports Succeed Authority Tasks Originals Statements Fighter Boxing Addresses Daring Sociology Aesthetics Art History Groundwork Daunting Tasks

Author:Robert Anasi

“Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.”

People Thinking Men Crazy Creatures Every Man Reasonable Monarchs Wonderland Crazy People

Author:Adam Gopnik

“After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.”

Ifs Rewards Spinning Carousels

Book:Paris to the Moon

Source: Paris to the Moon

“Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.”

Knows Light Paper Defined

Author:Adam Gopnik

“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”

World Long Dressed Up Laborers

Book:Paris to the Moon

Source: Paris to the Moon

“The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”

Kind Feelings Loneliness Complicated Odd Inseparable Being Free Expatriates

Book:Paris to the Moon

Source: Paris to the Moon

“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”

Believe Enough Differences Simple Trouble Distance Errors Faults Misunderstanding Spoken English

Book:Paris to the Moon

Source: Paris to the Moon

“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.”

Giving Mean Understanding Powerful Virtue Alive Special More Time

Author:Adam Gopnik

“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.”

Way Looks Heart Hands Strange Mysterious Paris Sleeves Strange Things

Book:Paris to the Moon

Source: Paris to the Moon

“Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist...”

Long Book Kids Literature Strange Contemporary Unexpected Appetite Tricky Contemporary Literature Unexpected Things

Author:Adam Gopnik

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