We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
ADAM GOPNIKYou can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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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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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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What do you think leads us to the windows in the first place?
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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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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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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
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If we had been there listening, we still might not have been able to determine exactly what Stanton said. All we know for sure is that everyone was weeping, and the room was full.
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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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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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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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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.
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