Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can’t say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
ADAM GOPNIKI 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 future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes
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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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I am a guilty party here – to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.
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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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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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I don’t miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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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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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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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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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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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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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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