Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in
ADAM GOPNIKYou can’t have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
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After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.
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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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Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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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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Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
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A good analogy [Charlie Hebdo] in lots of ways is “South Park” – the hugely popular American cartoon show – and the things that the “South Park” creators have created, like “The Book Of Mormon,” the Broadway musical.
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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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Credibility’ is defined as the willingness to kill a lot of people now for a not very good cause to assure the world that we’ll kill a lot more people if we can find a better one.
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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 French believe that all errors are distant, someone else’s fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors
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If you’re being attacked from all sides, it’s possible you’re doing something right; it’s also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
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