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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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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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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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this:
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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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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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