For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
ADAM GOPNIKWhat drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Wit and puns aren’t just décor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.
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If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.
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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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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast – you sort of can’t skip it.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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The reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution – perhaps the first modern political institution.
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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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