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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New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.
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I think if journalists start doing that then they won’t be practicing journalism. If satirists start doing that then they won’t be practicing satire.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Love, 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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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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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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That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.
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The overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about – was still startling.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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