I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these people are really fanatics, so we should back down from them.
ADAM GOPNIKThe trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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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 grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
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We’ve had mass shootings in the United States in the part of violent antiabortion protesters, in the part of violent pro-ISIS militants.
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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A fact about photography: we can look at people’s faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states
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Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.
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What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are – the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
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Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions – adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers – none can equal the Internet.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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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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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.
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What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.
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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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