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 GOPNIKSometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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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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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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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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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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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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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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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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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend
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The past is so often unknowable not because it is befogged now but because it was befogged then, too, back when it was still the present.
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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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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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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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When handsome men or beautiful women take up the work of the intellect, it impresses us because we know they could have chosen other paths to being impressive.
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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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