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Adam Gopnik

In an age of malice and bad faith on many sides, I reread White or Thurber or Mitchell and am reminded again that good writing is done, as I said in my elegy for Salinger, with an active eye and ear and an ardent heart, and in no other way.
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Age Bad Country Eye Faith Good Heart Malice People Reread Thurber Working Writing
There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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Attitude Cooking Course Decent Party People Professional Simplicity Thinking
After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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After Carousel Honor Own Proud Reward Spinning
Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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Deep Deeply Evidence Good Outward Sometimes Think Thinking Time
That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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Chose Circuitous Good Looking Mind More Path Route Showing Something Suggest Worthwhile
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…
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Book Contemporary Kid Knowledge Literature Long Oddest Unexpected
I think – the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
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Confection Make More Think Sense Sentence Slightly Write Written
I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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Civilised Core Life Live Mean Think Thinking
Something is missing, we think. And so we long for the thing we’ve missed and can’t name, and out of that wanting – well, everything else rises, good and bad.
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Bad Good MIssed Missing Name Out Sometimes Think Wanting Well
Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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Alcohol Distract Father Finding Helpful Process Something Writing
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
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Coffee Country Institution Respect Terrible Traditional Trying
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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Explore First Goes Journey Kind People Reel Thinking Traveler Two
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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Accomplishment Art Become Faith Intensity More Practice Sustained
Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Come Fanaticism Flavor Human Being Many
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.
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Closed Country Dressed Everything Laborer Long Society World
Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners
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Dinner Food Prisoner Punish Punishment Water

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