The basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.
ADAM GOPNIKMen choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
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Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
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Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers
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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.
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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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This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.
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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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We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
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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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Would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn’t produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?
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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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Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.
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Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
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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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Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum
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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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