Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. .
ADAM GOPNIKOften the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense.
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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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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
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For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique.
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Tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn’t diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.
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We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. […]
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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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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, 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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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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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios
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I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
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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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That any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
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I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.
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